What is Eugenics and Where do its ideas come from? What was its program? What impact would its program have on human variation if it were carried out and What has been its legacy?
Eugenics is a set of beliefs that aim to advocate artificially improving genetic quality of human populations, often by avoiding populations that are deemed genetically inferior for populations that are deemed superior. Eugenics also advocates aborting of disabled babies.
Eugenic principles trace back to ancient times, but it became important only in 20th century with advent of scientific racism and ideas like "survival of the fittest."
Since eugenics avoids vast portions of human populations because they are considered inferior, it'll eventually run into a problem of low genetic diversity amongst human populations if implemented.
At its height, eugenics, forced sterilisation laws were adopted in countries like the US and those laws if now removed still have lasting impacts on the medical institutions.
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