In 1883 a British biologist named Francis Galton combined the roots of the Greek words for "good" and "origin" to create the term "eugenics" for an applied science based on genetics and breeding.

The AT&T Hotel and Conference Center, located on UT’s Austin campus, is technically a university-owned venue, though it operates as a self-funded entity. In past instances, the university has allowed ...

In these pages, we are often confronted with the horrors of gene defects, although advances that may help attenuate their effects encourage us. We argue that it is undesirable to attempt to ...

Eugenics is in a somewhat unfortunate position in that, through a little misrepresentation, it may easily be made to appear in an unfavorable light. Pearson tells us that Francis Galton ...

Geneticists, as an outgrowth of early twentieth-century eugenics, structured schizophrenia as a genetic disease caused by first-cousin marriage. These consanguineous marriages that were reported as ...

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History demands that we not turn a blind eye to what is happening around us. As frustrating as it can be to wake up to this ...

Millionaires and billionaires, pioneers in robotics, nanotechnology, crypto-currency, AI and private space explorations, ...

The eugenics movement of the early 1900s ultimately went horribly wrong despite its noble aims. What can we learn from this movement's outcomes in order to avoid the repetition of these mistakes?

Vermont Governor Jim Douglas wants Middlebury College to pay damages for violating a contract by renaming the former Mead ...

From Vice President JD Vance to SpaceX/Tesla/X.com CEO Elon Musk, natalism is a high priority for the MAGA movement. Vance famously attacked Americans who don't have biological children as "childless ...

Junko Iizuka, who is in her 70s, leads a quiet life in Miyagi Prefecture, growing strawberries and herbs and watching the news every day. She developed her relatively stable life after suffering ...