ASIA 100 Lecture 1: Lecture 1 Eugenics Preliminary.docx
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Eugenics: lecture 1 (4 8: genetics in modern world, early genetic science is crude to what we know today, evolutionary process can be guided by human agency and the resulting laws and policies from that idea known as eugenics, eugenics was not written into law, more general than that; academic, and journalists and some school systems would try to implement this. Blumenbach map of world based on 5 skin colors: degeneration scientific term, not a moral term; where did noah"s ark come to rest? (1790"s this was assumed as given fact) different theories, blumenbach believed it rested in caucases mountains in armenia. (common conclusion of scholars that studied the bible, the people that live there must be the most beautiful people in the world because they are the closest geographic descendants that were on noah"s ark, the farther out you get, you degenerate spatially human beings are changing.
