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The Politics of Heredity: Essays on Eugenics, Biomedicine, and the Nature-Nurture Debate
Explores the political forces underlying shifts in thinking about the respective influence of heredity and environment in shaping human behavior, and the feasibility and morality of eugenics.
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219 pages, Hardcover
First published August 1, 1998
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April 10, 2019One particularly good essay (among a lot of thoughtul essays) shows how basic Hardy-Weinberg reasoning defeats the eugenics segregation/sterilization program.
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