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Professor Joe Cain

UCL Professor of History and Philosophy of Biology

Bluebells in High Park Wood, East Sussex, April 2026
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Public Opinion newspaper front page 08 July 1912
Eugenics (historical)

Karl Pearson in rare media interview about eugenics in Public Opinion

Professor Karl Pearson rarely took media interviews. It was a point of principle. It also was a point of privilege. He hated criticism, and he had an extremely fragile personality. He deliberately insulated his work […]

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