Slide 2 - Galton believed that the natural selection mechanism
was broken due to philanthropy of the rich [1] - Galton defined
eugenics as artificial selection - At this early stage, another
definition by Galton was the science of improvement of the human
race germ plasm through better breeding Sir Francis Galton, father
of eugenics Slide 3 Slide 4 - Eugenics is a term that has been
defined by many different people in many different ways - There are
actually two different types of eugenics, positive eugenics and
negative eugenics - Generally, eugenics is the belief that people
with favourable genes are more beneficial to a society - Many
people are not familiar with the term eugenics Slide 5 - The
concepts of eugenics have actually existed long before the Common
Era of Man - Ancient Greek principles stated that if a man was a
peasant, his children would also be peasants [4] - 1798 essay by
Thomas Malthus laid the groundwork for modern eugenics - Cousin of
Charles Darwin, Sir Francis Galton, first coined the term eugenics
in 1883 Slide 6 -Charles B. Davenport was one of the most
influential geneticists in the beginning of the 20 th century [3] -
His initial definition of the aim of eugenics was to make young
people fall in love intelligently - He later went on to claim that
people had genes in them for feeblemindedness - He suggested that
people with these genes should be sterilized in order to prevent
their reproduction Slide 7 -Davenport had begun to influence many
people by the 1910s that his ideas on eugenics were correct - The
Binet immigration test was adopted in America in 1912: 80% failure
rate - A book in 1916 by avid eugenicist Madison Grant called The
Passing of the Great Race, just one of many eugenics books being
written at the time, brilliantly summarized the general idea of
eugenics Slide 8