Eugenics: A Very Short Introduction by Philippa Levine

Eugenics: A Very Short Introduction

Very Short Introductions

Philippa Levine

168 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history politics science challenging informative slow-paced
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In 1883, Francis Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin, coined the word "eugenics" to express his dream of perfecting the human race by applying the laws of genetic heredity. Adapting Darwin's theory of evolution to human society, eugenics soon becam...

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