Lancelot Thomas Hogben

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...