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How tuberculosis became a test case for eugenic theory

A 19th-century collaboration that failed to prove how facial features could indicate the diseases people were most likely to suffer from became a significant stepping stone in the new ‘science’ of eugenics.

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Why gene editing can never eliminate disability

In a world where DNA testing and gene editing offer ways to eliminate certain disabilities, Jaipreet Virdi explores a more accepting and inclusive approach.

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Busting myths about turkey-baster babies

The popular idea of sex-free, turkey-baster-led conception has been around since the 1970s. Christine Ro goes beyond the utensils drawer to find out if it’s ever really happened.

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Intelligence testing, race and eugenics

Specious ideas and assumptions about intelligence that were born during the great flourishing of eugenics well over 100 years ago still inform the British education system today, as Nazlin Bhimani reveals.

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  • Heredity in Primula Sinensis, lower part of plate VI in Mendel's Principles of Heredity, William Bateson, Cambridge, 1909
  • Heredity in man / by R. Ruggles Gates.
  • Mendel's Principles of Heredity by W. Bateson, Cambridge University Press, 1909
  • Titlepage of The Germ-Plasm: A Theory of Heredity by August Weismann, London, Walter Scott, 1893
  • Gregor Mendel, 1862, illustration to biographical note about Mendel in 'Principles of Heredity' by William Bateson, Cambridge 1909
  • Examples of an heredity tendency to see number-forms, Francis Galton
  • The physical basis of heredity / by Thomas Hunt Morgan ... 117 illustrations.
  • Diagram of nuclear division, Fig 1 in Introduction of The Germ-Plasm: A Theory of Heredity by August Weismann, London, Walter Scott, 1893
  • The germ-plasm : a theory of heredity / [A. Weismann] ; translated by W. Newton Parker and Harriet Rönnfeldt.
  • A female of Daphnia pulex with eggs, fig.3 in 'Alternation of Generations', p.175 The Germ-Plasm: A Theory of Heredity by August Weismann, London, Walter Scott, 1893
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