Cambridge University Press eBooks· 2013· Book chapter
A Treatise on Man and the Development of his Faculties
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Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet pioneered social statistics by applying mathematical methods to human physical and psychological traits, identifying the 'average man' based on normally distributed mean values.
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