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

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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

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Anthropometry

The scientific study of the measurements and proportions of the human body

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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

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Scientific concepts that argue against eugenics being a real science

  1. Traits are polygenic

  2. Gene linkage

  3. Genetic variation

  4. Hybrid vigor

  5. Genetic drift v.s. Natural selection

  6. Who gets to choose what is an improvement?