In Western writing, it was first suggested by Plato. Yes, they knew about selective breeding back then. There are some legitimate concerns with this, namely quashing a gene that we may later have found useful. From a purely evolutionary standpoint, genetic diversity is considered a good idea. It does stuff like allow our species to survive epidemics.
I have no ethical qualms about allowing genetic manipulation. We might want to wait until it is more fully understood, but it's not a bad idea in and of itself.
The dark history of how eugenics was developed in Britain
'"I want to look at history and the history of science and to bring in the idea of nuance," she added. '
'Most often associated with Nazi atrocities, eugenics was a theory developed by Victorian scientist and statistician Sir Francis Galton. ', "When he died in 1911, Galton endowed UCL with his personal collection of archives, and a bequest which funded the country's first professorial Chair of Eugenics."
'University College London (UCL) recently launched an urgent investigation into reports that a senior academic secretly ran a conference on eugenics at the institution for three years. '
'Scientific racism as a whole and eugenics in particular were confined to the Nazis," she said. '
TheBuddha ago
In Western writing, it was first suggested by Plato. Yes, they knew about selective breeding back then. There are some legitimate concerns with this, namely quashing a gene that we may later have found useful. From a purely evolutionary standpoint, genetic diversity is considered a good idea. It does stuff like allow our species to survive epidemics.
I have no ethical qualms about allowing genetic manipulation. We might want to wait until it is more fully understood, but it's not a bad idea in and of itself.
derram ago
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'"I want to look at history and the history of science and to bring in the idea of nuance," she added. '
'Most often associated with Nazi atrocities, eugenics was a theory developed by Victorian scientist and statistician Sir Francis Galton. ', "When he died in 1911, Galton endowed UCL with his personal collection of archives, and a bequest which funded the country's first professorial Chair of Eugenics."
'University College London (UCL) recently launched an urgent investigation into reports that a senior academic secretly ran a conference on eugenics at the institution for three years. '
'Scientific racism as a whole and eugenics in particular were confined to the Nazis," she said. '
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