eugenics

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Psychology

 

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Alfredo B

 

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May 27, 2015

 

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University

 

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Many social Darwinists, influenced by Darwin's "survival of the fittest" insisted that biology was destiny. Nature over nurture influenced the broad spectrum of socially deleterious traits, ranging from criminality and poverty to mental illness; that all of society's problems including the feebleminded and the licentious resulted from heredity (Marks)...
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Sir Francis Galton, wanted to perfect the human race by, getting rid of its "undesirables" while multiplying its "desirables". Galton concluded that, since one could use artificial selection to exaggerate traits in other animals, one could expect similar results when applying such models to humans. At the core of eugenics, Mendel's law of heredity was applied to humans to trace traits via a pedigree...
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