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#130C: Endgame, Part 3

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The History of Eugenics

In 1904, the Cold Springs Harbor Research Facility was started in the United States by eugenicist Charles Davenport with funding of prominent Robert Barron's Carnegie Rock of Feller and Harriman. The concept of eugenics is if you find certain characteristics over time, if you have complete control over those, you can breed further enhancement of those characteristics somewhat. So you then follow human beings or animals, just like dogs, so we can do the same thing there. But be that as it may, he thinks that Cold Spring's Harbor is this one unipolar, just everybody's the same. And it's not. There were people who were doing like agricultural experiments. There were

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