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Eugenics

The attempt to improve the PHENOTYPES of future generations of the human population by fostering the reproduction of those with favorable phenotypes and GENOTYPES and hampering or preventing BREEDING by those with undesirable phenotypes and genotypes. The concept is largely discredited. (McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 6th ed)

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The attempt to improve the PHENOTYPES of future generations of the human population by fostering the reproduction of those with favorable phenotypes and GENOTYPES and hampering or preventing BREEDING by those with undesirable phenotypes and genotypes. The concept is largely discredited. (McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 6th ed)

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  • Negative Eugenics
  • Positive Eugenics
  • Eugenics, Negative
  • Eugenics, Positive

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Indexed with the subheadings history, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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  1. National Library of Medicine. Eugenics. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D005053. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D005053
  2. Eugenics. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics
  3. Eugenics. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q170480