Eugenics (/juːˈdʒɛnɪks/ yoo-JEN-iks; from Ancient Greek εύ̃ (eû) 'good, well' and -γενής (genḗs) 'born, come into being, growing/grown') is a set of beliefs...

The social policies of eugenics in Nazi Germany were composed of various ideas about genetics. The racial ideology of Nazism placed the biological improvement...

Eugenics, the set of beliefs and practices which aims at improving the genetic quality of the human population, played a significant role in the history...

New eugenics, also known as liberal eugenics (a term coined by bioethicist Nicholas Agar), advocates enhancing human characteristics and capacities through...

Hispanic eugenics are a positive eugenics based around the political purification of a people, developed in Spain during the interwar period and put into...

The history of eugenics is the study of development and advocacy of ideas related to eugenics around the world. Early eugenic ideas were discussed in Ancient...

Eugenics wars may refer to: In the Star Trek fictional universe, the Eugenics Wars are a series of conflicts that occurred between 1992 and 1996, in which...

Eugenics in California is a notable part of eugenics in the United States. As an early leading force in the field of eugenics, California became the third...

Sybil Gotto in 1907 as the Eugenics Education Society, with the aim of promoting the research and understanding of eugenics. Members came predominately...

Eugenics has influenced political, public health and social movements in Japan since the late 19th and early 20th century. Originally brought to Japan...

separate from the Eugenics Wars; SNW's "Strange New World" retcons it to taking place in the 21st century, prior to WWIII.) 1996 The Eugenics Wars end. After...

The American Eugenics Society (AES) was a pro-eugenics organization dedicated to "furthering the discussion, advancement, and dissemination of knowledge...

justifications for compulsory sterilization have included population control, eugenics, limiting the spread of HIV, and ethnic genocide. Several countries implemented...

The Eugenics Record Office (ERO), located in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States, was a research institute that gathered biological and social...

the Eugenics Record Office from its inception in 1910 to its closure in 1939, and was among the most active individuals influencing American eugenics policy...

Revolution, the eugenics movement gained prominence in Mexico. Seeking to change the genetic make-up of the country's population, proponents of eugenics in Mexico...

February 18, 1944) was a biologist and eugenicist influential in the American eugenics movement. Davenport was born in Stamford, Connecticut on June 1, 1866,...

The Galton Laboratory was a laboratory established for the research of eugenics, later to the study of biometry and statistics, and eventually human genetics...

genetics. It was established in 1925 by Karl Pearson as the Annals of Eugenics, with as subtitle, Darwin's epigram "I have no Faith in anything short...

feminism was a current of the women's suffrage movement which overlapped with eugenics. Originally coined by the Lebanese-British physician and vocal eugenicist...

race). He was the Galton Professor of Eugenics at University College London and editor of the Annals of Eugenics. Fisher was born in East Finchley in London...

War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race is a 2003 book by historian and journalist Edwin Black. Overall, War Against...

criticized for supporting eugenics, including negative eugenics. Some historians believe her support of negative eugenics, a popular stance at that time...

geologist and eugenics advocate. He was the president of the American Museum of Natural History for 25 years and a cofounder of the American Eugenics Society...

The Eugenics Survey of Vermont was a survey that gathered biological, familial, and social information of Vermonters in order to further eugenic policies...

Three International Eugenics Congresses took place between 1912 and 1932 and were the global venue for scientists, politicians, and social leaders to plan...

describe an approach to eugenics in the early 20th century, which found its most extensive implementation in Nazi Germany (Nazi eugenics). It was marked by...

States that enacted laws which legalized eugenic practices. The practice of eugenics aims to improve the genetic quality of a population which has historically...

the Darwin Awards are meant as black humor, but associates them with the eugenics movement of the early 20th century. University of Oxford biophysicist Sylvia...

others, emphasizing struggle between national or racial groups, support eugenics, racism, imperialism and/or fascism. Social Darwinism declined in popularity...