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“Geneticists believe that anthropologists have decided what a race is. Ethnologists assume that their classifications embody principles which genetic science has proved correct. Politicians believe that their prejudices have the sanction of genetic laws and the findings of physical anthropology to sustain them.”

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Lancelot Hogben

Lancelot Hogben was a prominent British statistician born on December 9, 1895, and died on August 22, 1975. He had a significant impact on the field of statistics, particularly in biostatistics and demographic statistics. more

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