[RegulatorCountry]

Eugenics is the study of attempting to improve the human race by selective breeding; its rationale is to remove bad or deleterious genes from the population. Scientific racism attempted to identify good or beneficial genes, as well as bad or deleterious genes, based upon human racial characteristics. So, eugenics was hardly a goal, it is a process, a means to an end. And, that end was, in German, "Hoherentwicklung," a higher state of evolution.

[Dracian]

Eugenics is the study of attempting to improve the human race.... So, eugenics was hardly a goal, it is a process

You stated the goal, "improve the human race." The process wouldn't make sense without the goal. There can be many ways to attempt to "improve the human race." So the definition of the ultimate goal doesn't really describe or constrain the methods or process along any specific lines.

Chance mutation and natural selection, Darwin's theory of evolution, doesn't really apply to human intervention in breeding. So we're really getting far afield of Darwin's theory anyhow.

[DanDenDar]

And, that end was, in German, "Hoherentwicklung," a higher state of evolution.

Entwicklung in German means a number of different things, including development, production or generation, or processing. 'Höherentwicklung' (sp!) usually just means a more advanced stage of development. There is no necessary connotation with biological evolution.