[PatrickHenry]

If you look back at the earlier years of the last century, some supporters of Darwinian evolution supported eugenics and other efforts to "improve the race." So did plenty of other people whose notions of humanity's origins were not derived from Darwin.

Eugenics, in one form or another, has been around for a long time. It didn't start with Darwin.

Greek warrior Spartan civilization. Weakling infants were left in the mountains to die.
The Republic, Book 5, Section 1. Plato recommended state-supervised selective breeding of children.
History of Australia. Before Darwin, England exiled criminals to purify the race.

[Oztrich Boy]

History of Australia. Before Darwin, England exiled criminals to purify the race.

Actually, Australians consider that that worked.