In 1911, influential geneticist Charles Davenport published "Heredity in Relation to Eugenics," advancing his ideas of how genetics would improve society in the

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced

This volume assesses the history of eugenics in the United States and its status in the age of the Human Genome Project. The essays explore the early support of

A concise and gripping account of eugenics from its origins in the twentieth century and beyond.