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the study of methods of improving genetic qualities by selective breeding (especially as applied to human mating)
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Eugenics is a social philosophy (sometimes labeled a "science", a "movement", or a "pseudoscience") which advocates to improve human hereditary qualities. Proposed means of doing so have included but are not limited to selective breeding, encouragement and discouragement of certain types of reproductive practices, genetic engineering, and, historically, extermination of the designated "unfit". ...
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(Greek, "well born") The study of ways in which the physical and mental quality' of a people can be controlled and improved by selective breeding.
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The application of the principles of genetics to the "improvement" of humankind.
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Controlled human breeding based on notions of desirable and undesirable genotypes.
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