eugenics notes

Eugenics Eugenics, the study of improving the quality of the human race. This idea of improving the quality of the human race was very popular in the United States during the twentieth century. This study resulted in over 60,000 sterilizations in the United States alone. This concept started to die off in the late twentieth, early twenty-first century. Sir Francis Galton also known as the “Father of Eugenics” is responsible for the works of eugenics all over the world. This outbreak of eugenics in the United States is said to be where Hitler got his ideas for wiping out the Jewish population in Germany during WWII.
Who?
Sir Francis Galton, the “Father of Eugenics” Galton was much more than the father of eugenics, Galton was also an anthropologist, geographer, inventor, meteorologist and much more. Galton got the idea for eugenics from his cousin Charles Darwin, Darwin is commonly known for his study of the survival of the fittest. Darwin wrote The Voyage of the Beagle on the Origin of Species evolution by natural selection, Galton took Darwin’s concept and applied it to the human race, but instead of natural selection Galton wanted people sterilized so he could get rid of the bad traits in a timely manor rather then letting the trait die off over time, concidering it could have taken many years of studying and analizing data. Though Sir Francis Galton is a very important part of eugenics he is not the only person responible for this crisis not only in the United States but around the world.

If plants and animals can control what characteristics are good and bad characteristics why can’t we apply it to humans?

What? What is Eugenics? Eugenics is the science of improving the human race by controlled breeding so desirable characteristics start to increase within the gene pool. At its height of popularity in the twentieth century, it was practiced mostly in the United States and later in Germany. Over 65,00(?) sterilizing took place just in the