Eugenics [noun]

Definition of Eugenics:

transmission of traits from parents to offspring

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Sentence/Example of Eugenics:

This last argument has been the justification for all past attempts at eugenics.

As I argued recently in Nautilus, there is an illusion that’s long plagued science—linked to the eugenics movement and the ideas of Francis Galton, the founder of Nature—that objectivity in statistical analysis confers objectivity in interpretation.

You might therefore consider it, in some sense, a story of eugenics, but that its outlook is emotional rather than scientific.

It has already been gone into in detail in the article on eugenics.

One of the things about which we know almost nothing at present is the subject of eugenics.

Euthenics precedes eugenics, developing better men now, and thus inevitably creating a better race of men in the future.

Euthenics is the term proposed for the preliminary science on which Eugenics must be based.

In another hundred years, then, Euthenics may give place to Eugenics, and the better race of men become an actuality.

Suppose that a Board of Eugenics were in charge of this nation, what would they do with the species this man represents?

The basis of national greatness is indicated in the principles of Eugenics.