- Summary
- Evolutionary selection has been radically relaxed in the human species as a result of the development of civilization, science in general, and medicine in particular. While these advances have hugely benefited current populations, they have to a significant degree released the species from the biological process which created it and maintains its viability. Formerly, natural selection took place largely as a result of differential mortality, but now that most people survive well beyond their child bearing years, selection is determined largely by differential fertility. Aside from genetic illnesses, this new selection is also characterized by a negative correlation between fertility and intelligencethe core of eugenic concern for over a century. Eugenics views itself as the fourth leg of the chair of civilization, the other three being a) a thrifty expenditure of natural resources, b) mitigation of environmental pollution, and c) maintenance of a human population not exceeding the planets carrying capacity. Eugenics, which can be thought of as human ecology, is thus part and parcel of the environmental movement. Humanity is defined, not as the totality of the currently living population, but as the number of people who will potentially ever live. This is a book about the struggle for human rights and parental responsibility.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Glad, John.
- Published
- Schuylkill Haven, PA : Hermitage Publishers, 2006
- Contents
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What is eugenics?
Science
Previous evolution
Testing
g-loading
IQ decline
Genetic illnesses
Scientific method
Mapping the human genome
Ideology
Essential conditions
Altruism
Society and genes
Politics : manipulation masked as democracy
Welfare and fertility
Crime and IQ
Migration
The history and politics of eugenics
A brief history of the eugenics movement
Germany
Left and right
The Jews
The suppression of eugenics
Possible abuse of genetics
Euthanasia
Religion
Population management
Feasibility
Radical intervention
Conclusion
What you can do for future generations
Appendix 1: Social biology and population improvement
Appendix 2: 100 books dealing with German history during the Weimar period and under National Socialism.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [119]-130).
What is eugenics? -- Science -- Previous evolution -- Testing -- g-loading -- IQ decline -- Genetic illnesses -- Scientific method -- Mapping the human genome -- Ideology -- Essential conditions -- Altruism -- Society and genes -- Politics : manipulation masked as democracy -- Welfare and fertility -- Crime and IQ -- Migration -- The history and politics of eugenics -- A brief history of the eugenics movement -- Germany -- Left and right -- The Jews -- The suppression of eugenics -- Possible abuse of genetics -- Euthanasia -- Religion -- Population management -- Feasibility -- Radical intervention -- Conclusion -- What you can do for future generations -- Appendix 1: Social biology and population improvement -- Appendix 2: 100 books dealing with German history during the Weimar period and under National Socialism.
