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| − | Eugenics is the practice of attmepting to alter a human population through selective breeding. The [[Nazis]] were in favour of eugenics, and [[Richard Dawkins]] has recently called for society's negative view of it to be questioned.[http://www.sundayherald.com/life/people/display.var.1031440.0.eugenics_may_not_be_bad.php] Human eugenics is believed to be largely biologically invalid. | + | Eugenics is the practice of attmepting to alter a human population through selective breeding. The [[Nazis]] were in favour of eugenics, and [[Richard Dawkins]] has recently called for society's negative view of it to be questioned, although he stated his general distaste for the idea.[http://www.sundayherald.com/life/people/display.var.1031440.0.eugenics_may_not_be_bad.php] Human eugenics is believed to be largely biologically invalid. |
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Eugenics is the practice of attmepting to alter a human population through selective breeding. The Nazis were in favour of eugenics, and Richard Dawkins has recently called for society's negative view of it to be questioned, although he stated his general distaste for the idea.[1] Human eugenics is believed to be largely biologically invalid.
External References
Stephen Jay Gould, "The Mismeasure of Man", W.W. Norton and Co., 1981, 1996.