Sir Walter F. Bodmer: from R.A. Fisher to genomics
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Eugenics
Eugenics was a much more severe activity in many ways in the united states, with compulsory sterilization proposed to people who were abnormalities that affected mental behavior. The british have a different experience with eugenics, the term. I'm extemally surprised that you say eugenics wouldn't be known in the states. But let me go back a bit. Maybe people don't know the origin of eugenics. There was a very famous british statisticians come geneticis come scientists, called sir francis galton,. And it was he that coined the term eugenics - i think it was in 19 83.
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