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Darwinism, Eugenics, and You
damninteresting.com — Darwin's half-cousin Sir Francis Galton suggested that one could apply the principle of artificial selection to humans just as one could in domestic animals, thereby exaggerating desirable human traits over several generations. This scientific philosophy would come to be known as eugenics, and much insanity has come from this science,
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- cquinnd, on 05/14/2008, -0/+6While Galton is credited for coining the term, the concepts of directed human development have existed for quite a while before people were inspired to link them to the findings of Darwin and others. With philosophic commentary going back to Plato, and the practice of arranged marriage to benefit family bloodlines going even further back.
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