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Eugenics manifesto was the name given to an article supporting eugenics, published in 1939 in the journal Nature, entitled Social Biology and Population Improvement.[1][2]

In 2004, John Glad wrote that the document denounced Hitler's racism and the economic and political conditions that create antagonism between the races.[3] "The Second World War had already begun, and the authors explicitly decried antagonism between races and theories according to which certain good or bad genes are the monopoly of certain peoples."[1]

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* Jus trium liberorum
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* Jewish views on incest
* Incest in the Bible
* British eugenics
* Malthusian League
* Eugenic feminism
* Nazi eugenics
* "Racial hygiene"
* Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring
* Hereditary Health Court
* Lebensborn
* Romani Holocaust
* Aktion T4
* Doctors' Trial
* US eugenics
* Slave breeding in the US
* Eugenics Survey of Vermont
* Oneida stirpiculture
* Immigration Act of 1924
* US birth control movement
* Sterilization law in the United States
* Buck v. Bell
* Doe ex. rel. Tarlow v. District of Columbia
* Madrigal v. Quilligan
* Poe v. Lynchburg Training School & Hospital
* Skinner v. Oklahoma
* Stump v. Sparkman
* Virginia Sterilization Act of 1924
* Canadian eugenics
* The Famous Five
* Sexual Sterilization Act
* French Eugenics
* Japanese eugenics
* Hispanic eugenics
* Mexican eugenics
* Swedish sterilization program (1906–1975)
* Peruvian sterilization program (1990–2000)
* Population planning in Singapore
* Neo-eugenics
* He Jiankui genome editing incident
* Human genetic enhancement
* Religious response to assisted
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Pre-war academic proponents

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* Davenport
* Darwin (Charles)
* Darwin (Leonhard)
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* von Ehrenfels
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* Nordau
* Osborn
* Pan
* Pearson (Karl)
* Perkins
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* Ploetz
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* Rainer
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* Ross
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* Sergi
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* Stoddard
* Taussig
* Terman
* Tesla
* Thorndike
* Vacher de Lapouge
* Verschuer
* Yerkes

Post-war academic remnants

* Agar
* Bell (Julia)
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* Pendell
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* Popenoe
* Rostand
* Savulescu
* Shapiro
* Shockley
* Verschuer
* Vining Jr.
* Weiss

Pamphlets and manifestos

* Hereditary Genius (1869)
* Degeneration (1892–1893)
* Gallia (1895)
* "The Blood of the Nation" (1901/1910)
* Anticipations (1901)
* The Training of the Human Plant (1907)
* Essays in Eugenics (1909)
* Heredity in Relation to Eugenics (1911)
* Mankind at the Crossroads (1923)
* Daedalus (1924)
* La raza cósmica (1925)
* Marriage and Morals (1929)
* The Genetical Theory of Natural
Selection (1930)
* "Charter for Rationalists" (1932)
* Man, the Unknown (1935)
* After Us (1936)
* "Eugenics manifesto" (1939)
* New Bottles for New Wine (1950)
* The Marching Morons (1951)
* The Dance with the Devil (1958)
* Civilized Man's Eight Deadly Sins (1973)
* Beyondism (1987)
* Dysgenics (1996)
* Eugenics: A Reassessment (2001)
* Jewish Eugenics (2011)
* Selective Breeding and the Birth of
Philosophy (2023)

Organizations

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* ABCL
* Alberta Eugenics Board
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* AES
* Carnegie Institution for Science
* Carrel Foundation
* CSHL
* Co-operative Women's Guild
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* Fabian Society
* Galton Laboratory
* German Society for Racial Hygiene
* Heredity Commission
* HBF
* Human Betterment League
* Immigration Restriction League
* INED
* IAAEE
* International Eugenics Conference
* IFEO
* Kaiser Wilhelm Institute
* Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry
* PAA
* Progressive League
* Race Betterment Foundation
* RHA
* Rockefeller Foundation
* State Institute for Racial Biology

With significant post-war activity

* Annals of Eugenics (1954)
* CIS
* The Eugenics Review (1968)
* FREED
* HDF
* J. Soc. Political Econ. Stud.
* LCI
* Mankind Quarterly
* OpenPsych
* Project Prevention
* Repository for Germinal Choice
* Ulster Institute for Social Research

Related

* Demographic engineering
* Dysgenics
* Fujimorism
* Genetic discrimination
* History of eugenics
* Idiocracy
* Pedigree chart
* Political views of Bertrand Russell
* Political views of H. G. Wells
* Raymond Cattell bibliography
* Ronald Fisher bibliography
* Selective breeding

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## Signatories

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The 23 British and American men who signed the manifesto are listed below.[1][2][4]

* Francis Albert Eley Crew
* Cyril Dean Darlington
* John Burdon Sanderson Haldane
* S. C. Harland
* Lancelot T. Hogben
* Julian S. Huxley
* Hermann Joseph Muller
* Joseph Needham
* G. P. Child
* P. R. David
* Gunnar Dahlberg
* Theodosius Dobzhansky
* Rollins Adams Emerson
* C. Gordon
* J. Hammond
* Charles Leonard Huskins
* Peo Charles Koller
* Walter Landauer
* Harold Henry Plough
* Bronson Price
* J. Schultz
* Arthur G. Steinberg
* Conrad Hal Waddington

## References

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1. ^ a b c Eugenics Manifesto Site with this "manifesto" and its signatories. The original name of this manifesto is "Social Biology and Population Improvement".
2. ^ a b Crew, F. A. E.; Darlington, C. D.; Haldane, J. B. S.; Harland, C.; Hogben, L. T.; Huxley, J. S.; Muller, H. J.; Needham, J.; Child, G. P.; Koller, P. C.; David, P. R.; Landauer, W.; Dahlberg, G.; Plough, H. H.; Dobzhansky, TH.; Price, B.; Emerson, R. A.; Schultz, J.; Gordon, C.; Steinberg, A. G.; Hammond, J.; Waddington, C. H.; Huskins, C. L. (16 September 1939). "Social Biology and Population Improvement". Nature. Vol. 144, no. 144\. pp. 521–522\. doi:10.1038/144521a0. Nature Magazine of September, 1939, with just a small part of the article.
3. ^ John Glad (9 June 2004). "History, Eugenics, And The Jews" (6 October 2014 ed.). The Jewish Press. "In September 1939 the most prominent American and British eugenicists published "Social Biology and Population Improvement" in the journal Nature. In the document which came to be popularly known as The Eugenics Manifesto, the authors firmly denounced Hitler's racism, decrying "economic and political conditions which foster antagonism between different peoples, nations and 'races,'" and calling for "a removal of race prejudices and of the unscientific doctrine that good or bad genes are the monopoly of particular peoples or of persons with features.""
4. ^ John Nedham Galton Institute Archived 6 July 2009 at the Wayback Machine John Postgate Eugenics returns

## External links

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* Social Biology and Population Improvement by Google Books
* Social Biology and Population Improvement by Nature

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