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"They took what they could understand from the evolutionary theories of their day. They didn't know about DNA."

They knew about Mendel though, and eugenics owes at least as much ( I would argue more, as the eugenics movement didn't take off until after Mendel's ideas became rediscovered in 1900) to his work as to Darwin's. Oh those evil Mendelians!
1,094 posted on 01/29/2006 2:15:24 PM PST by CarolinaGuitarman ("There is grandeur in this view of life...")
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FYI…
And
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1,103 posted on 01/29/2006 3:16:40 PM PST by Heartlander (Do You Find Information Harms Your Ability To Make Uninformed Decisions?)
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