Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler was infamous for eugenics programs which attempted to maintain a "pure" German race through a series of programs that ran under the banner of "racial hygiene."
A long-term eugenics plan is likely to lead to a scenario similar to this because the elimination of traits deemed undesirable would reduce genetic diversity by definition.
Their findings were used by the eugenics movement as proof for its cause.
Social Darwinism, like eugenics, fell out of favor as it become increasingly associated with racism.
Eugenics is a social philosophy which advocates the improvement of human hereditary traits through various forms of intervention.
Some observers such as Philip Kitcher have described the use of genetic screening by parents as making possible a form of "voluntary" eugenics.
Eugenic policies have been conceptually divided into two categories: Positive eugenics, which encourage a designated "most fit" to reproduce more often; and negative eugenics, which discourage or prevent a designated "less fit" from reproducing.
Many earnest friends and comrades insist that the Choctaw Indian as a Confederate soldier should receive his proper place on the scroll of events during the War between the States.
Eugenics has also been concerned with the elimination of hereditary diseases such as haemophilia and Huntington's disease.
DuBois and Marcus Garvey supported eugenics or ideas resembling eugenics as a way to reduce African American suffering and improve their stature.
Many legal methods of eugenics include state laws against miscegenation or prohibitions of interracial marriage.
A common criticism of eugenics is that it inevitably leads to measures that are unethical.
Despite the ill repute of eugenics, there still exists a debate regarding its use or abuse.
The term eugenics is often used to refer to movements and social policies that were influential during the early twentieth century.
The most disputed aspect of eugenics has been the definition of "improvement" of the human gene pool, such as what comprises a beneficial characteristic and what makes a defect.
Opponents of the act have attacked it as bringing in eugenics through the backdoor under the guise of a requirement of "consent.
The scale of the Nazi program prompted American eugenics advocates to seek an expansion of their program, with one complaining that "the Germans are beating us at our own game.
Opponents argue that eugenics is immoral and is based on, or is itself, pseudoscience.
The word eugenics etymologically derives from the Greek words eu (good) and gen (birth), and was coined by Francis Galton in 1883.
The word eugenics would sufficiently express the idea; it is at least a neater word and a more generalized one than viriculture which I once ventured to use.
The Eugenics Record Office opened in 1910, while Davenport and Harry H. Laughlin began to promote eugenics.
Today, however, the ideas developed from eugenics are used to identify genetic disorders that are either fatal or result in severe disabilities.
Eugenics differed from what would later be known as Social Darwinism.
Some modern subcultures advocate different forms of eugenics assisted by human cloning and human genetic engineering, sometimes even as part of a new cult (see RaŠ»lism, Cosmotheism, or Prometheism).
Commentators have suggested the new "eugenics" will come from reproductive technologies that will allow parents to create so-called "designer babies" (what the biologist Lee M. Silver prominently called "reprogenetics").
Many Princely states in India had Hinduism as their state religion prior to the creation of the modern Indian state in 1947.
After eugenics fell out of scientific favor, most references to eugenics were removed from textbooks and subsequent editions of relevant journals.