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eugenics::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | bioscience, life science |
| Derivation | eugenic |
Examples of eugenics
eugenics
This may be wonderful news for the pro-eugenics crowd, but not wonderful enough.
From the sfgate.com
One such promotion of science and social progress was the promotion of eugenics.
From the en.wikipedia.org
I think creationism is very dangerous and makes me draw a parralel with eugenics.
From the newscientist.com
This type of research is really rather worrying, echoing very closely eugenics.
From the guardian.co.uk
But surely eugenics is a cranky, long-forgotten movement with no relevance today?
From the guardian.co.uk
Eugenics advocates of the Progressive era tended to be intellectual determinists.
From the genotopia.scienceblog.com
The Rockefeller Foundation has funded eugenics projects for over a hundred years.
From the infowars.com
Crick occasionally expressed his views on eugenics, usually in private letters.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Maybe it is eugenics, but certainly not the kind practiced by, say, the Nazis.
From the independent.co.uk
- The study of methods of improving genetic qualities by selective breeding (especially as applied to human mating)
- (eugenic) pertaining to or causing improvement in the offspring produced
- Eugenics is "the study of, or belief in, the possibility of improving the qualities of the human species or a human population by such means as discouraging reproduction by persons having genetic defects or presumed to have inheritable undesirable traits (negative eugenics) or encouraging ...
- The science of improving stock, whether human or animal; A social philosophy which advocates the improvement of human hereditary qualities through selective breeding
- (Eugenic) favor one racial sector over others (e.g., Japan, US up until the civil rights movement (1960s), Nazis are an extreme example of eugenics)
- The belief that information about heredity can be used to improve the human race.
- Programs by which humans are carefully selected for breeding in order to maximize certain qualities. The German Nazi government instituted a Mutterkreuz (mother's cross) program which encouraged women to have many "Aryan" children, for which they could receive crosses.
- The study, belief, and practice of using selective breeding to improve the human race, which was especially popular during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
- From Greek eugenes meaning wellborn; The eugenics movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries sought to "improve" the human species and preserve racial "purity" through planned human breeding. ...
