Eugenics with Adam Rutherford
Dan Snow's History Hit
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Eugenics
Eugenics gets thrown around as an insult to many branches of science and psychology that are clearly not but are interested in studying heredity. Eugenic is the politicized, bastard child of the study of heredity because it is always a political ideology. When it comes to thinking about what design of babies, or, you know, gean editing in order to change specific characteristics in individuals, i think it has eugenics as part of its d and a.
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