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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The belief that deterioration of the human gene pool occurs by the increased survival and reproduction of people with undesirable traits.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun the study of the operation of factors causing degeneration in the type of offspring produced.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the study of the operation of factors causing degeneration in the type of offspring produced
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The term 'dysgenics' was first used by David Starr Jordan in 1915 when he postulated that wars killed off the fitter men while the less fit were left at home.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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The term 'dysgenics' was first used by David Starr Jordan in 1915 when he postulated that wars killed off the fitter men while the less fit were left at home.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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Claims about dysgenics usually quickly degenerate into a big debate about nature vs. nurture.
Dysculturation?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Claims about dysgenics usually quickly degenerate into a big debate about nature vs. nurture.
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Claims about dysgenics usually quickly degenerate into a big debate about nature vs. nurture.
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It takes multiple centuries for dysgenics to inflict a significant toll or, on the flip side, traditional eugenics to achieve anything; history is now moving too quickly for that sort of thing to be relevant.
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The simplest reason to not worry about dysgenics is the imminent arrival of at least limited human germline engineering.
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I think the main problem is that due to the policies of dysgenics we are seeing abortions by people who could afford to have children if the state extortion rate was lower.
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"Our nobly intended welfare programs may be encouraging dysgenics-retrogressive evolution through disproportionate reproduction of the genetically disadvantage … We fear that 'fatuous beliefs' in the power of welfare money, unaided by eugenic foresight, may contribute to a decline of human quality for all segments of society."
Climate Progress 2009
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The idea of licensing parents, or licensing parenting, is quite new, but the concept of promoting eugenics or discouraging dysgenics have historical roots, as does the idea of producing many children for the good of society-without regard to their genetic quality.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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