Genetics, Evolution and Eugenics - Lecture One

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This lecture is an account of the unhappy marriage between genetics and eugenics and their close kin with evolutionary theory in the 20th Century, an era in which eugenics turns from ideas into widespread public policy.

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This event was on Mon, 01 Nov 1999

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Professor Steven Rose

Professor of Physic

Professor Steven Rose is a Professor of Biology and Neurobiology at the Open University and University of London. Rose read Biochemistry at King's College, Cambridge and Neurobiology at Cambridge and the Institute...

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hilary rose

Professor Hilary Rose

Professor of Physic

Hilary Rose has published extensively in the sociology of science from a feminist perspective and has held numerous appointments in the UK, USA, Australia, Austria, Norway, Finland and at the Swedish...

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