HST 701 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Jukes Family, The Kallikaks, 1907 In Canada
28 Nov 2016
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Hst 701 - scientific technology and modern society. Director of the cold spring harbor station for the experimental evolution founded in 1904. Richard dugdale"s 1877 jukes" study updated at cold spring harbour in 1915. Max jukes and his wife were early frontier low-lives married around 1790. Cost to society: . 3 million to 1877. Cost to sterilize original jukes couple: . 1776 martin kallikak has sex with feebleminded tavern wench . Martin kallikak marries respectable girl of a good family". If the dregs of humanity" were sterilized, mendelian genetics (one gene, one trait) seemed to indicate: Unwanted traits could be bred out of the human population. Belief: feeblemindedness caused by a single gene. Within a few generations this gene could be eliminated. Taxpayers rebelled against paying for the unfit. 27 us states passed eugenics sterilization laws beginning with indiana in. In canada, eugenics laws were passed in alberta and british columbia.
