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Definition of eugenics in English: eugenicsplural nounjuːˈdʒɛnɪksjuˈdʒɛnɪks treated as singular The science of improving a population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics. Example sentencesExamples - Clearly, contemporary views of heritability are populist market eugenics in a new form.
- Once you've got regulated breeding, it's a short skip to selective breeding - eugenics.
- Although critics insist that eugenics was based on bad science, they often ignore the link to evolution.
- He devoted the latter part of his life to eugenics, i.e. improving the physical and mental makeup of the human species by selected parenthood.
- After World War I they were less sanguine about progress and more inclined to the hereditarian pessimism of eugenics.
- Just to stop us getting too excited, we were cautioned by stories of eugenics and mutant pigs.
- Racism and eugenics were very popular among Leftists in Hitler's day.
- And as you know eugenics is defined as the science of improving the qualities of the human race.
- As the explosion in genetic research continued, the temptation of eugenics grew ever more alluring.
- He believes the history of eugenics is the history of government out of control, not geneticists.
- Not today, anyway, though there have been times when it has: social Darwinism and eugenics made claims like that.
- In Erlangen, the University keenly promoted the science of eugenics.
- It is easy to criticise the premarital medical examination on grounds of human rights, control, oppression, and eugenics.
- A world not only of eugenics, but also of tight government control over all aspects of human reproduction.
- His enduring fame, or infamy, rests on eugenics, which means, crudely, the selective breeding of humans.
- Not only was eugenics said to be good science, it was also supported by Scripture.
- An example is the notion of eugenics, a painful memory in the history of science.
- In the United States in recent years, interest in eugenics has centered around genetic screening.
- But the origin of eugenics was simply a desire to increase the odds that a child would be born healthy.
- It was a drastic form of eugenics, a desire to improve the race by eliminating genetic defects.
Derivativesadjective juːˈdʒɛnɪkjuˈdʒɛnɪk The Nazis were hardly prudes on matters sexual, and their eugenic obsessions prompted a liberal code of rules and mores on procreation. Example sentencesExamples - The Eugenics Review reflected the broad cross-section of eugenic interpretations of demography and degeneration.
- As more people can derive benefits from the use of genetic information to guide reproductive decisions eugenic practices will become very widespread.
- The eugenic and Social Darwinism programs are morally repugnant, but seem to be based on Darwinian evolutionary facts.
- For people such as Fisher, who was a leading figure in the American eugenics movement, the eugenic program of race improvement was the central concern.
adverb Early-twentieth-century uneasiness about lower-class whites overpopulating the nation led to a panicked organization of public and private research which could eugenically chart lines of white families. Example sentencesExamples - The outdoors, he concluded, would eugenically inoculate boy children against the evils of over-sophistication and effeminacy as they grew.
- In the former, the exhausted, unnamed protagonist is offered two weeks in the country with her six young children, compliments of the eugenically named Social Betterment Society.
- From this soil bed will grow an intentionally wild, uncultivated mix of vegetation - a symbolic counter to the Nazi dream of a homogeneous, eugenically bred German race.
- And a 1916 feature film even encouraged people to marry eugenically and kill their defective offspring.
adjective & nounjuːˈdʒɛnɪsɪstjuˈdʒɛnəsəst The eugenicists believed Mendelian laws governed the heredity of human physiological traits and social traits. Example sentencesExamples - After the war eugenicists started to use different names because the term eugenics became unacceptable.
- For ordinary, healthy Germans the eugenicist vision of the regenerated nation foundered on the realities of a war which left the country in ruins.
- We know that social Darwinists and eugenicists in the past have drawn on, and perhaps been inspired by, evolutionary biology.
- He has gathered many documents - letters by leading eugenicists, publications of eugenics associations, and records of institutions for the mentally retarded - that historians had already found and interpreted.
noun & adjective ˈjuːdʒɪnɪst To propagate this message, eugenists were instrumental in developing tests for ‘racial fitness’, primarily intelligence tests. Example sentencesExamples - She was a committed eugenist, and the name of her organization - the Society for Constructive Birth Control and Racial Progress - clearly stated her racialist position.
- The eugenists wanted to shift the birth control emphasis from less children for the poor to more children for the rich.
- Social reformers, doctors and eugenists documented the harm they believed wage-earning mothers inflicted on babies and children.
- In the US and elsewhere, however, other eugenists were extremely cautious about the question of birth control.
Definition of eugenics in US English: eugenicsplural nounjuˈdʒɛnɪksyo͞oˈjeniks treated as singular The science of improving a human population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics. Developed largely by Francis Galton as a method of improving the human race, it fell into disfavor only after the perversion of its doctrines by the Nazis. 优生学 Example sentencesExamples - Just to stop us getting too excited, we were cautioned by stories of eugenics and mutant pigs.
- Once you've got regulated breeding, it's a short skip to selective breeding - eugenics.
- He devoted the latter part of his life to eugenics, i.e. improving the physical and mental makeup of the human species by selected parenthood.
- In the United States in recent years, interest in eugenics has centered around genetic screening.
- Although critics insist that eugenics was based on bad science, they often ignore the link to evolution.
- It is easy to criticise the premarital medical examination on grounds of human rights, control, oppression, and eugenics.
- It was a drastic form of eugenics, a desire to improve the race by eliminating genetic defects.
- Not today, anyway, though there have been times when it has: social Darwinism and eugenics made claims like that.
- A world not only of eugenics, but also of tight government control over all aspects of human reproduction.
- An example is the notion of eugenics, a painful memory in the history of science.
- But the origin of eugenics was simply a desire to increase the odds that a child would be born healthy.
- As the explosion in genetic research continued, the temptation of eugenics grew ever more alluring.
- Racism and eugenics were very popular among Leftists in Hitler's day.
- His enduring fame, or infamy, rests on eugenics, which means, crudely, the selective breeding of humans.
- Clearly, contemporary views of heritability are populist market eugenics in a new form.
- And as you know eugenics is defined as the science of improving the qualities of the human race.
- He believes the history of eugenics is the history of government out of control, not geneticists.
- Not only was eugenics said to be good science, it was also supported by Scripture.
- After World War I they were less sanguine about progress and more inclined to the hereditarian pessimism of eugenics.
- In Erlangen, the University keenly promoted the science of eugenics.
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