BIOL 446 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Margaret Sanger, Franz Boas, Biostatistics
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Opposed to the worldview reading (ecological) denies this worldview. Suggest that we can use science to improve our law: opposite of ecological worldview be careful of what we do because we can"t predict the efects. Studied genius; saw that genius was clustered in families. Did twin studies because he knew that nature and nurture had to be separated. Looked at stats to understand trends and distribuion. If marry someone that"s proper (to him, it"s white europeans) People started to recognize the idea of genes (mendel"s ideas) which helped galton"s approach. They thought that eugenics is a technology feeling of opimism before. His text on heredity and eugenic became popular and a much used college text. Not experimentalist but a biometrician used biometrics. Involved in conservaion, avid naturalist but embraced eugenics. Wrote powerful books on eugenics such as the the passing of the great race.
