Eugenics
While the idea of improving humans through selective breeding is at least as old as the ancient Greeks, it gained widespread prominence after 1869. In 1883, Sir Francis Galton coined the word...
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Eugenics
EUGENICS. The term eugenics, from the Greek meaning "good birth," was coined by British scientist Francis Galton (1822–1911). As Galton defined it in Essays in Eugenics (...
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The Eugenics Movement: Good Intentions Lead to Horrific Consequences
Overview
For thousands of years, people have tried to rank each other according to perceived superiority or inferiority. This tende...
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Eugenics
Eugenics is the study of improving the human race by selective breeding. Its rationale is to remove bad or deleterious genes from the population, increasing the overall fitness of humanity as...
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Euphenics
The term euphenics was coined in the early 1960s as an alternative or counterpart to the word eugenics. Euphenics means specifically intervention in human development at the molecular and ce...
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Eugenics
Eugenics is the study of attempting to improve the human race by selective breeding. Its rationale is to remove bad or deleterious genes from the population, increasing the genetic fitness of...
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Eugenics
Eugenics is a scheme for improving the human race by controlling reproduction. The practice of eugenics reached its height in the period between the late nineteenth century and World War II, ...
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Eugenics
Eugenics was an ideology that arose in the late nineteenth century to promote improving human heredity. It posed as a scientific enterprise, but combined ethical presuppositions and political...
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Eugenics is the study of human heredity, aimed at improving the genetic quality of the human stock. Similarly, it can be understood better as the process that selective breeding can improve human soc...
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