1855 (Age 32) Published The Art of Travel, a popular how-to book for the Victorian traveller
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1855 (Age 32) Elected to the Athenaeum Club London
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1859 (Age 36) Publication of his cousin Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species, especially chapter 1, 'Variation under Domestication'
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30 June 1860 (Age 38) Present at the Oxford Evolution Debate (also known as the Huxley-Wilberforce debate or the Wilberforce-Huxley debate) at the Oxford University Museum on Darwin's recently-published theories -- participants included Thomas Henry Huxley, Bishop Samuel Wilberforce, Benjamin Brodie, Joseph Dalton Hooker and Robert FitzRoy Oxford
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1860 (Age 37) Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society
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between 1863 and 1867 (Age 40) Secretary of the British Association for the Advancement of Science
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1865 (Age 42) First publication on heredity -- 'Hereditary talent and character' (Macmillan's magazine): 'talent and peculiarities of character are found in the children, when they have existed in either of the parents, to an extent beyond all question greater than in the children of ordinary persons', thus if 'a twentieth part of the cost and pains were spent in measures for the improvement of the human race that is spent on the improvement of the breed of horses and cattle' it would produce 'a galaxy of genius'
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between 1868 and 1900 (Age 45) Member of the governing committee of the Meteorological Office
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between 1872 and 1877 (Age 49) Invesitigation of hereditary patterns in sweet peas, and invention of the 'regression coefficient'
Note: dating approximate
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1874 (Age 51) Published English men of science: their nature and nurture
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1875 (Age 52) Published The history of twins
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1883 (Age 60) Coined the word 'eugenics', 'out of the Greek roots for "beautiful" and "heredity"'
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1883 (Age 60) Published Inquiries into Human Faculty and its Development
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1888 (Age 65) Royal Institution paper on fingerprints and their use in criminal investigations, proposing eight basic finger print patterns -- '1 plain arch, 2 tented arch, 3 simple loop, 4 central pocket loop, 5 double loop, 6 lateral pocket loop, 7 plain whorl, and 8 accidental'
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between 1889 and 1901 (Age 66) Chair of the of the Kew committee of the Royal Society
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1889 (Age 66) Published Natural Inheritance -- his summary of his studies of human heredity
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1901 (Age 78) Journal Biometrika founded (with Galton's financial backing) by his disciples Karl Pearson and W. F. R. Weldon
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1908 (Age 85) Awarded the Darwin-Wallace Medal of the Linnean Society
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Biostatistician, human geneticist, and eugenicist, making important contributions in many fields, including 'meteorology (the anti-cyclone and the first popular weather maps), statistics (regression and correlation), psychology (synaesthesia), biology (the nature and mechanism of heredity), and criminology (fingerprints)'; see ODNB
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