BIOL 3000 Eugenics
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Eugenics
“Well born”
The study of how to arrange reproduction within a human population to increase the occurrence of heritable characteristics regarded as desirable. The improvement of the human race through selective breeding practices
Positive eugenics
Promoting the idea of “good stock.”
Family planning and prenatal care
Encourage healthy capable people of above-average intelligence to bear more children
Financial support for selected pairings
Anthropometry
The scientific study of the measurements and proportions of the human body
Negative eugenics
Played on the worst fears of race and social degeneration
Limited procreation: Prenatal care only for a few, marriage restrictions, segregation, forced sterilization, and euthanasia
Scientific concepts that argue against eugenics being a real science
Traits are polygenic
Gene linkage
Genetic variation
Hybrid vigor
Genetic drift v.s. Natural selection
Who gets to choose what is an improvement?
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