Comments on: Galton’s disappearance from collective memory would have been surprising to his contemporaries https://www.isegoria.net/2023/01/galtons-disappearance-from-collective-memory-would-have-been-surprising-to-his-contemporaries/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Fri, 01 May 2026 21:33:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Jim https://www.isegoria.net/2023/01/galtons-disappearance-from-collective-memory-would-have-been-surprising-to-his-contemporaries/comment-page-1/#comment-3583450 Jim Sat, 07 Jan 2023 01:45:33 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=49570#comment-3583450 Isegoria: “Readers of this blog — certainly the ones of proper breeding — will already know what Galton did ‘wrong’ to end up down the memory hole.”

Heh.

]]> By: Bob Sykes https://www.isegoria.net/2023/01/galtons-disappearance-from-collective-memory-would-have-been-surprising-to-his-contemporaries/comment-page-1/#comment-3582347 Bob Sykes Tue, 03 Jan 2023 14:22:11 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=49570#comment-3582347 It is interesting that Pearson (another cancelled scientist/mathematician) did not foresee the merger of Mendelian genetics and Darwin’s Theories of Natural/Sexual/Group Selection. That was the work of George Gaylord Simpson, Ernst Mayr, and Theodosius Dobzhansky.

The punctuated equilibrium theory of Stephen Jay Gould and Niles Eldredge is often viewed as an attempt to overthrow the Theory of Natural Selection. Gould and Eldredge and other critics of Darwin likeDavid M. Raup, Steven Stanley, and Stanley Rose brought a Marxist viewpoint to evolutionary theory.

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