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- noun the study of the operation of factors causing degeneration in the type of offspring produced.
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- noun medicine The opposite of
eugenics ; theaggregation of factors, through adverse sexual selection, tending to promote thedeterioration of therace .
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- noun the study of the operation of factors causing degeneration in the type of offspring produced
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