[[Image:Gtr766.png|right|thumb|300px|Logo of the Second International Congress of Eugenics, 1921.]]
[[Image:Gtr766.png|right|thumb|300px|Logo of the Second International Congress of Eugenics, 1921.]]
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'''Eugenics''' was a pseudo-scientific movement which tried to eliminate "dangerous human pests" and "the rising tide of imbeciles" through what has been euphemistically called "[[selective breeding]]". What this meant, in actual practice, was [[forced sterilization]] of American immigrants and minorities (particularly in California). [http://www.michaelcrichton.net/fear/index.html]
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'''Eugenics''' was a movement which tried to eliminate "dangerous human pests" and "the rising tide of imbeciles" through what has been euphemistically called "[[selective breeding]]". What this meant, in actual practice, was [[forced sterilization]] of American immigrants and minorities (particularly in California). [http://www.michaelcrichton.net/fear/index.html]
== Connection with The Theory of Evolution ==
== Connection with The Theory of Evolution ==
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Stephen Jay Gould, "The Mismeasure of Man", W.W. Norton and Co., 1981, 1996.
Stephen Jay Gould, "The Mismeasure of Man", W.W. Norton and Co., 1981, 1996.