(I also consider Alt History one of the least interesting forms of science fiction, kinda like a nerdy, uninteresting half-cousin.) ❋ Frankwu (2010)
One thing I would add is that the modern cult of beatifying Charles Darwin is dependent upon demonizing his younger half-cousin Francis Galton. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Furthermore, not that it matters, but Galton was merely Darwin's half-cousin since they shared the same grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, but had different grandmothers. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Darwin's worshipful younger half-cousin and sometimes collaborator Sir Francis Galton, outlived him by three highly productive decades. ❋ Steve Sailer (2006)
Darwin's half-cousin, who coined the term "eugenics," pointed out that since the Catholic Church was the main "career open to talents" in the medieval world, the celibacy rule for priests, monks, and nuns might have lowered the intelligence and morality level of Christian Europe. ❋ Steve Sailer (2005)
I will admit that the distinction between Darwinism and Galtonism is not perfectly sharp: Darwin partly got the idea for natural selection from the artificial selection being practiced for millennia by animal breeders, and his half-cousin Galton they were grandsons of the near-genius Erasmus Darwin just turned it around and proposed encouraging marriages among people with traits believed to benefit society. ❋ Steve Sailer (2005)
This usually involves a counting on the fingers of a part of his genealogical tree, and ends in the important announcement that the head of the party is half-cousin to some well-known ruler. ❋ Unknown (2004)
One of my cousins (half-cousin?) had a baby recently - my parents are great-aunt and great-uncle now. ❋ Elfpvke (2003)
"You're a sort of half-cousin of mine, and a great-niece of Uncle Jonathan's," he blurted out. ❋ Emilie Searchfield (N/A)
Jacqueline soon learned that he was a Hungarian, second half-cousin of a friend of Kossuth, the most wonderful violinist of the day, who had apparently superseded the famous Polish pianist in these ladies 'interest and esteem. ❋ Various (N/A)
"Old friend of my wife's, sort of half-cousin several-times removed, schoolmates in France together, the kind of old family friend who comes and goes in the house at will," said Neale rapidly. ❋ Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1918)
[148] Galton himself, the grandson of Erasmus Darwin, and the half-cousin of Charles Darwin, may be said to furnish a noble illustration of an unconscious process of eugenics. ❋ Havelock Ellis (1899)
'Sophy,' an orphan half-cousin, to whom and to her mother Uncle John's munificence had been fatherly and princely, was now, and still continues, Alick Welsh's good and amiable wife. ❋ Unknown (1883)
Jacqueline soon learned that he was a Hungarian, second half-cousin of ❋ Unknown (1873)
Opposite him, on the old lady's left hand, sat his cousin, or rather half-cousin, the plain-featured but large-hearted Janet, whom the poor people about that neighborhood regarded as being something more than any mere mortal woman. ❋ William Black (1869)
Some years ago my little half-cousin whom you saw lost his mother and was put in my charge by his father, with ❋ Bret Harte (1869)
