Category:Eugenics

Eugenics (from Greek: εὖ eũ "good, beautiful" and γένος génos "sex") is the application of the findings of human genetics to entire peoples. The term was coined in 1883 by British anthropologist Francis Galton (1822-1911), a first cousin of Charles Darwin, and ultimately aims at pure Social Darwinism. Galton saw eugenics as a science whose declared aim is to increase the proportion of positively evaluated hereditary traits in the population through right breeding selection. At the time of National Socialism, eugenics was propagated as racial hygiene. According to the ideas of some transhumanists, this concept is to be realised in modern form by means of genetic engineering.