This question has been hotly debated over the past century. Those in favor of eugenics claim that it improves the human gene pool. Those against it claim that it unfairly disadvantages people who are deemed unworthy of reproduction.
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the principal of eugenics are racism and abortion..
The problem with eugenics, besides the fact that it's unethical, is that restricting the gene pool is never good for a species.All the stupid questions I see every day on this site have made me think that maybe eugenics isn't such a bad idea, after all.
Francis Galton developed the theory of Eugenics
There are two types: positive and negative. Positive eugenics involves advantaging people who have superior genes. Negative eugenics involves sterilizing people who have inferior genes.
There are two types: positive and negative. Positive eugenics involves advantaging people who have superior genes. Negative eugenics involves sterilizing people who have inferior genes.
Lack of diversity (inbreeding) exposing genetic weaknesses. A good example would be pedigree dogs.
Eugenics, positive and negative, is a program that proposed to breed superior humans and halt the breeding of so called inferior humans. Eugenics means " good genes " and really has nothing to do with Darwin, his theory or biological evolution. Francis Galton, a cousin of Darwin's, came up with this concept and Darwin had nothing and wanted nothing to do with this program.
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Lack of diversity (inbreeding) exposing genetic weaknesses. A good example would be pedigree dogs.
eugenics is a term referring to the science of improving the racial question of humanity through selective breeding of superior types.
William Ernst Castle has written: 'Genetics and eugenics' -- subject(s): Eugenics, Genetics, Hybridization