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:"The publication of Darwin's ''[[Origin of Species]]'' in 1859 led to the rise of the eugenics movement in Europe.  Eugenics supporters believed that [[race]]s could be improved by [[selective breeding]].  The [[Nazi Party]] adopted this belief and began a campaign against the Jews. Many physicians joined the Nazi Party because they needed jobs."
 
:"The publication of Darwin's ''[[Origin of Species]]'' in 1859 led to the rise of the eugenics movement in Europe.  Eugenics supporters believed that [[race]]s could be improved by [[selective breeding]].  The [[Nazi Party]] adopted this belief and began a campaign against the Jews. Many physicians joined the Nazi Party because they needed jobs."
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Many genocides have been commited in the name of Eugenics, most notably the Holocaust.  [[Adolf Hitler]] was a strong believer in eugenics and evolution and believed that Jewish people were closest to apes, followed by Africans, Asians, non-Aryan Europeans, and finally Aryans, who he believed were most evolved.
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Many [[genocide]]s have been commited in the name of Eugenics, most notably the Holocaust.  [[Adolf Hitler]] was a strong believer in eugenics and evolution and believed that Jewish people were closest to apes, followed by Africans, Asians, non-Aryan Europeans, and finally Aryans, who he believed were most evolved.
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Pat Milmoe McCarrick and Mary Carrington Coutts, reference librarians for the National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature at [[Georgetown University]], were more succinct:  "The Nazi [[racial hygiene]] program began with involuntary sterilizations and ended with [[genocide]]." <ref>McCarrick, Pat Milmoe and Coutts, Mary Carrington et al. (June 1995). [http://web.archive.org/web/20041013060122/http://www.georgetown.edu/research/nrcbl/scopenotes/sn28.htm "Introduction"].  ''Eugenics'', Scope Note series, no. 28.  Georgetown University/The Joseph and Rose Kennedy Institute of Ethics/National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature website.  Retrieved from October 13, 2004 archive at Internet Archive on September 18, 2014.</ref>
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Pat Milmoe McCarrick and Mary Carrington Coutts, reference librarians for the National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature at [[Georgetown University]], were more succinct:  "The Nazi [[racial hygiene]] program began with involuntary sterilizations and ended with genocide." <ref>McCarrick, Pat Milmoe and Coutts, Mary Carrington et al. (June 1995). [http://web.archive.org/web/20041013060122/http://www.georgetown.edu/research/nrcbl/scopenotes/sn28.htm "Introduction"].  ''Eugenics'', Scope Note series, no. 28.  Georgetown University/The Joseph and Rose Kennedy Institute of Ethics/National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature website.  Retrieved from October 13, 2004 archive at Internet Archive on September 18, 2014.</ref>
    
==Liberal eugenics==
 
==Liberal eugenics==
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