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Eugenics refers to beliefs and practices aimed at controlling reproduction in order to ?improve? the characteristics of human populations. In the early 20th century eugenic beliefs were intertwined with the developing science of genetics.

 

Much of eugenics ideology was reductionistic in nature with many eugenicists assuming that social and behavioral conditions such as poverty vagrancy or prostitution were inherited as genetic traits rather than shared as common social situations.

 

While today eugenics may be regarded as a pseudoscience it was seen as cutting edge science in the early decades of the twentieth century. Eugenics societies sprang up throughout most of the industrialized world particularly in the United States Great Britain and Germany.

 

These policies were mostly divided into two categories: positive eugenics the increased reproduction of those seen to have advantageous hereditary traits; and negative eugenics the discouragement of reproduction by those with hereditary traits perceived as poor.

 

A timeline highlighting key moments in the development of eugenics with a focus on the American eugenics movement.

 

Eugenics is the practice or advocacy of improving the human species by selectively mating people with specific desirable hereditary traits.

 

Eugenics is the scientifically erroneous and immoral theory of ?racial improvement? and ?planned breeding ? which gained popularity during the early 20th century.

 

Eugenics the selection of desired heritable characteristics to improve future generations typically in reference to humans. The term eugenics was coined in 1883 by British scientist Francis Galton.

 

The contemporary history of eugenics began in the late 19th century when a popular eugenics movement emerged in the United Kingdom [6] which spread to most European countries (e.g. Sweden and Germany) and many other countries including the United States Canada and Australia.