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To: RegulatorCountry
Which is it, eugenics as originated and described by Francis Galton ... or mere "animal husbandry?"

The idea of selective breeding of humans goes back to at least Plato. Galton was one of the originators of the modern notion of human selective breeding and he chose to call it eugenics, which attempted to clothe it in scientific garb (sort of like what the IDers do.) Regardless of how it is phrased, its essence is animal husbandry applied to humans. As such it is artificial selection.

258 posted on 08/28/2006 11:18:42 AM PDT by WildHorseCrash
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To: WildHorseCrash

"As such it is artificial selection."

Do you then regard war as artificial selection?


262 posted on 08/28/2006 11:21:52 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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