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  1. Department of Psychology, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA, 95616-8686, USA

    Dean Keith Simonton

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Simonton, D.K. (2017). Galton, Francis. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_2166-1

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