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Daily Archives: June 25, 2011

The Aggressive Mutation of Post-War Eugenics

Textbook HistoryBy Ronald LadouceurJune 25, 20112 Comments

June 25, 2011 A weird thing happened in the years right after World War II: new college-level biology textbooks, rather than dropping the subject of eugenics, doubled down and began to defend the ideology with more aggressive rhetoric and moments of near-pornographic spectacle. Biology: And Its Relation to Mankind by Baylor graduate and Stetson University…

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