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Lancelot Thomas Hogben

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December 9, 1895, Portsmouth, England
Died:
August 22, 1975 (aged 79)

Lancelot Thomas Hogben (born December 9, 1895, Portsmouth, England—died August 22, 1975) was an English zoologist, geneticist, medical statistician, and linguist, known especially for his many contributions to the study of social biology. Hogben’s birth was premature by two months, an event that convinced his evangelical family that he should become a medical missionary after his “miracle” survival. (He later described himself as the son of “poor but intellectually dishonest parents.”) In 1905 the Hogben family moved to London, where Lancelot attended public schools and, at age 17, won a scholarship for disadvantaged youths to attend Trinity College, Cambridge. (In ...(100 of 1021 words)

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