soyarıtımı

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Definition of soyarıtımı in Turkish English dictionary

(Biyoloji) eugenics

The science of improving stock, whether human or animal

A social philosophy which advocates the improvement of human hereditary qualities through selective breeding

disapproval Eugenics is the study of methods to improve the human race by carefully selecting parents who will produce the strongest children. the study of methods to improve the mental and physical abilities of the human race by choosing who should become parents - used in order to show disapproval (eugenes , from genes ). Study of human improvement by genetic means. The first thorough exposition of eugenics was made by Francis Galton, who in Hereditary Genius (1869) proposed that a system of arranged marriages between men of distinction and women of wealth would eventually produce a gifted race. The American Eugenics Society, founded in 1926, supported Galton's theories. U.S. eugenicists also supported restriction on immigration from nations with "inferior" stock, such as Italy, Greece, and countries of eastern Europe, and argued for the sterilization of insane, retarded, and epileptic citizens. Sterilization laws were passed in more than half the states, and isolated instances of involuntary sterilization continued into the 1970s. The assumptions of eugenicists came under sharp criticism beginning in the 1930s and were discredited after the German Nazis used eugenics to support the extermination of Jews, blacks, and homosexuals. See also genetics, race, social Darwinism

{i} study of the possibility of racial improvement through selective breeding and other methods

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