Eugenics

Eugenics is a term used to describe a process which is implemented in hopes of creating a better race of humans through the genes the parent generation passes down to the offspring. The term was used originally by Englishman Francis Galton in 1883 who, incidentally, was a cousin of the famous evolutionist Charles Darwin. Galton was primarily concerned with mathematics. He was completing a statistical study of "latent ability" among a group of British people mainly through the reading of their biographical sketches, Galton noticed that most of these people were related some how and he concluded that intelligence and other desirable traits could be passed on through heredity. …