jan 1, 1883 - Francis Galton coins term "Eugenics"
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-Francis Galton, Charles Darwin’s Cousin, came up with this term: "Eugenics"-Believed biology is what determined people’s success in life
-Established positive and negative eugenics
-Positive eugenics encourages reproduction amongst desired groups
-Negative eugenics discourages and aims to prevent reproduction by undesirable groups
-Drew inspiration from the work of Gregor Mandel, an 1820s monk and had used selective breeding to develop strains of peas with specific traits,
-believed this could similarly work with humans
-Idea that the desired groups were not reproducing enough, meanwhile undesired groups were over-breeding
-Supported strongly by people who were involved in biology and agriculture
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Date:
jan 1, 1883
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~ 142 years ago