“One of the effects of civilization is to diminish the rigour of the application of the law of natural selection.”

— Francis Galton

"Hereditary Talent and Character" in MacMillan's Magazine Vol. XII (May - October 1865), p. 326.
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Context: One of the effects of civilization is to diminish the rigour of the application of the law of natural selection. It preserves weakly lives that would have perished in barbarous lands.

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British polymath: geographer, statistician, pioneer in euge… 1822–1911

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