eugenics
یوجینکس
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In Erlangen, the University keenly promoted the science of eugenics .
the science of improving a human population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics. Developed largely by Francis Galton as a method of improving the human race, it fell into disfavor only after the perversion of its doctrines by the Nazis.
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His enduring fame, or infamy, rests on 'eugenics' , which means, crudely, the selective breeding of humans.
After World War I they were less sanguine about progress and more inclined to the hereditarian pessimism of 'eugenics' .
He believes the history of 'eugenics' is the history of government out of control, not geneticists.
Although critics insist that 'eugenics' was based on bad science, they often ignore the link to evolution.
An example is the notion of 'eugenics' , a painful memory in the history of science.
Not today, anyway, though there have been times when it has: social Darwinism and 'eugenics' made claims like that.
Just to stop us getting too excited, we were cautioned by stories of 'eugenics' and mutant pigs.
And as you know 'eugenics' is defined as the science of improving the qualities of the human race.
Once you've got regulated breeding, it's a short skip to selective breeding - 'eugenics' .
It is easy to criticise the premarital medical examination on grounds of human rights, control, oppression, and 'eugenics' .
He devoted the latter part of his life to 'eugenics' , i.e. improving the physical and mental makeup of the human species by selected parenthood.
Clearly, contemporary views of heritability are populist market 'eugenics' in a new form.
Racism and 'eugenics' were very popular among Leftists in Hitler's day.
Not only was 'eugenics' said to be good science, it was also supported by Scripture.
But the origin of 'eugenics' was simply a desire to increase the odds that a child would be born healthy.
In the United States in recent years, interest in 'eugenics' has centered around genetic screening.
It was a drastic form of 'eugenics' , a desire to improve the race by eliminating genetic defects.
In Erlangen, the University keenly promoted the science of 'eugenics' .
A world not only of 'eugenics' , but also of tight government control over all aspects of human reproduction.
As the explosion in genetic research continued, the temptation of 'eugenics' grew ever more alluring.
The 'eugenicists' believed Mendelian laws governed the heredity of human physiological traits and social traits.
After the war 'eugenicists' started to use different names because the term eugenics became unacceptable.
And a 1916 feature film even encouraged people to marry 'eugenically' and kill their defective offspring.
For ordinary, healthy Germans the 'eugenicist' vision of the regenerated nation foundered on the realities of a war which left the country in ruins.
As more people can derive benefits from the use of genetic information to guide reproductive decisions 'eugenic' practices will become very widespread.
She was a committed 'eugenist' , and the name of her organization - the Society for Constructive Birth Control and Racial Progress - clearly stated her racialist position.
We know that social Darwinists and 'eugenicists' in the past have drawn on, and perhaps been inspired by, evolutionary biology.
Social reformers, doctors and 'eugenists' documented the harm they believed wage-earning mothers inflicted on babies and children.
In the former, the exhausted, unnamed protagonist is offered two weeks in the country with her six young children, compliments of the 'eugenically' named Social Betterment Society.
The outdoors, he concluded, would 'eugenically' inoculate boy children against the evils of over-sophistication and effeminacy as they grew.
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