Eugenics

=**Eugenics**= toc

From Wikipedia
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 * Eugenics** is "the study of, or belief in, the possibility of improving the qualities of the human species or a human population by such means as discouraging reproduction by persons having [|genetic] defects or presumed to have inheritable undesirable traits (negative eugenics) or encouraging reproduction by persons presumed to have inheritable desirable traits (positive eugenics)."[|[2]]

The science of Eugenics is based on pedigree's and Mendel's laws on the inheritance of traits. As 9th grader's at Cary Academy, we take a biology class and learn about genetics, including pedigrees. However, when the traits you are tracing are more complicated than eye or hair color, it gets a lot harder to do. [|This site] explains the history of Eugenics as well as Eugenicists difficulties with tracing the more complex traits. Enter the archive to start reading.

Related Links
[|Eugenics.net] (blocked at school for some reason?) - see [|Eugenics] in [|Discussion]

This link is to a website provided by the American Bioethics Advisory Commitee (it might be a little anti-eugenics biased) []

On the same site under the section "definitions" that can be found in the main menu their is a list of documents published by the pro-eugenics American Eugenics Society that offer a different view of eugenics.