| 词汇 | eugenics |
| 词源 | eugenics. The British polymath Sir Francis Galton (1822– 1911), a cousin of Charles Darwin, coined the word, which is “the study of hereditary improvement of the human race by controlled selective breeding,” according to the Random House Dictionary (1897). Better for All the World by Harry Bruinius is an excellent recent book on the controversial subject. |
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