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[[Image:Eugenics.gif|thumb|right|450px|page of a pamphlet describing the lectures of Albert Wiggan on Eugenics. Courtesy of the Special Collections Department, University of Iowa Libraries]] | |||
'''Eugenics''' was the general name for a series of supposedly scientific claims about inheritance among humans, which sought to eliminate traits, such as "imbecility" or criminal behavior, by selective sterilization, regulation of family size, and restrictions on who could marry whom. | '''Eugenics''' was the general name for a series of supposedly scientific claims about inheritance among humans, which sought to eliminate traits, such as "imbecility" or criminal behavior, by selective sterilization, regulation of family size, and restrictions on who could marry whom. | ||
Revision as of 16:41, 1 June 2007
Eugenics was the general name for a series of supposedly scientific claims about inheritance among humans, which sought to eliminate traits, such as "imbecility" or criminal behavior, by selective sterilization, regulation of family size, and restrictions on who could marry whom.