Eugenics: a toxic history
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The Foundations of Human Genetics
Eugenic ideology is the study of heredity - just inheritances. The foundations of genetics areinextricably inter with the foundations of eugenics. A lot of researchers who were eugenicists in the pre war era a become geneticists in the post war era in germany. Many transition into becoming respectable genet ists, with their histories barely an inconvenienc.
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