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Galton's Children

Galton's Children

Is it possible to improve the human race through scientific means, or, more specifically, can we breed a better human? 

Galton’s Children: the Rise and Fall of the Eugenics Movement examines the social phenomenon of eugenics from its origins and period of greatest influence in the early 20th century, to discredit in the 1930s and its associations with the racial hygiene policies of Nazi Germany, and the persistence of eugenic ideas today.