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Galton remained preoccupied by his work and by his need to ensure he remained at the center of intellectual thought, however controversial, within the London social scientific circles at the time. He spent little time at home, and he and Louisa failed to have children together.
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Read, C. (2016). The Later Life and Legacy of Sir Francis Galton. In: The Econometricians. Great Minds in Finance. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-34137-2_7
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