HDP 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Eugenics Record Office, Plant Breeding, Mendelian Inheritance
5 Oct 2016
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Links biology to issues in diversity, culture and inclusion. Assembled data from data collected from cemeteries and built pedigrees from the data. Coined the term eugenics (well-born): improve humanity by encouraging the ablest and healthiest people to have more children (positive eugenics) A social philosophy which advocates the improvement of human hereditary traits through various forms of intervention. American eugenics developed in the wake of turbulent economic times. Birth rates among wealthy and powerful declining. He grew peas and crossbred them to observe the subsequent generations of flowers. Each trait is determined by a factor and each parent contributes one factor. 1865: mendel published that each factor was a discrete bit of hereditary information, unchanged through generations. Ideas rapidly incorporated into animal and plant breeding. Wild species domesticated crops and livestock. Eugenics record office cold spring harbor 1910. Eugenicists drew on ideas from mendelian genetics. If you carefully control human matings, you can eradicate many undesirable conditions:
