Heredity in Relation to Eugenics

1911 book by Charles Davenport

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Pre-war academic proponents

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* Tesla
* Thorndike
* Vacher de Lapouge
* Verschuer
* Yerkes

Post-war academic remnants

* Agar
* Bell (Julia)
* Blacker
* Carl
* Carter
* Cattell
* Coleman
* Darlington
* Fleischman
* Garrett
* Glad
* Hardin
* Haldane
* Hanania
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* Pearson (Roger)
* 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

Without significant post-war activity

* ABCL
* Alberta Eugenics Board
* AASPIM
* AES
* Carnegie Institution for Science
* Carrel Foundation
* CSHL
* Co-operative Women's Guild
* EBNC
* ERO
* 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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Heredity in Relation to Eugenics is a book by American eugenicist Charles Benedict Davenport, published in 1911. It argued that many human traits were genetically inherited, and that it would therefore be possible to selectively breed people for desirable traits to improve the human race.[1] It was printed and published with money and support of the Carnegie Institution. The book was widely used as a text for medical schools in the United States and abroad.[2]

In its time, the book was a success and became one of the most influential books in the early-20th century eugenics movement in the United States.

The book was blamed by some for contributing to widespread eugenic sterilization programs in the United States and to the racist policies of Nazi Germany and Hitler.[3]

## References

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1. ^ Charles Benedict Davenport. Retrieved 2018-07-03. `{{cite encyclopedia}}`: `|website=` ignored (help)
2. ^ "Charles Davenport's Heredity in Relation to Eugenics, Controlling Heredity". Archived from the original on 2016-03-01. Retrieved 2014-11-25.
3. ^ Vidnes, Thea (October 2009). "Jan A Witkowski and John R Inglis (eds), Davenport's dream: 21st century reflections on heredity and eugenics, New York, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2008, pp. xiii, 298, $55.00 (hardback 978-0-87969-756-3)". Medical History. 53 (4): 609–610\. doi:10.1017/S0025727300000727. ISSN 2048-8343.

## External links

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* Heredity in Relation to Eugenics by Charles Benedict Davenport at the Internet Archive
* Heredity in Relation to Eugenics at Google Books

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Obsolete definitions of race

* Racism
* Scientific racism
* Pseudoscience

Color terminology|

* Black
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* Brown
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* Red
* White

Concepts|

* Australoid
* Capoid
* Caucasoid
* Alpine
* Arabid
* Armenoid
* Aryan
* Atlantid
* Caspian
* Dinaric
* East Baltic
* Ethiopid
* Hamites
* Indid
* Iranid
* Mediterranean
* Nordic
* Semites
* Turanid
* Malay
* Mongoloid
* Proto-Mongoloid
* Sinodonty and Sundadonty
* Negroid
* Negrito

Sociological|

* in India
* Passing
* Racial discrimination
* Racism
* Racial stereotypes
* Colorism
* Master race
* Nazism and race
* Racial hygiene
* Whiteness studies
* Négritude

Writers|

* Louis Agassiz
* John Baker
* Erwin Baur
* John Beddoe
* Robert Bennett Bean
* François Bernier
* Renato Biasutti
* Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
* Franz Boas
* Daniel Garrison Brinton
* Paul Broca
* Alice Mossie Brues
* Halfdan Bryn
* Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
* Charles Caldwell
* Petrus Camper
* Samuel A. Cartwright
* Houston Stewart Chamberlain
* Sonia Mary Cole
* Carleton S. Coon
* Georges Cuvier
* Jan Czekanowski
* Charles Davenport
* Joseph Deniker
* Egon Freiherr von Eickstedt
* Anténor Firmin
* Eugen Fischer
* Francis Galton
* Stanley Marion Garn
* Reginald Ruggles Gates
* George Gliddon
* Arthur de Gobineau
* Madison Grant
* John Grattan
* Hans F. K. Günther
* Ernst Haeckel
* Frederick Ludwig Hoffman
* Earnest Hooton
* Julian Huxley
* Thomas Henry Huxley
* Calvin Ira Kephart
* Robert Knox
* Robert E. Kuttner
* Georges Vacher de Lapouge
* Fritz Lenz
* Carl Linnaeus
* Cesare Lombroso
* Bertil Lundman
* Felix von Luschan
* Dominick McCausland
* John Mitchell
* Ashley Montagu
* Lewis H. Morgan
* Samuel George Morton
* Josiah C. Nott
* Karl Pearson
* Roger Pearson
* Oscar Peschel
* Isaac La Peyrère
* Charles Pickering
* Ludwig Hermann Plate
* Alfred Ploetz
* James Cowles Prichard
* Otto Reche
* Gustaf Retzius
* William Z. Ripley
* Alfred Rosenberg
* Benjamin Rush
* Henric Sanielevici
* Heinrich Schmidt
* Ilse Schwidetzky
* Charles Gabriel Seligman
* Giuseppe Sergi
* Samuel Stanhope Smith
* Herbert Spencer
* Morris Steggerda
* Lothrop Stoddard
* William Graham Sumner
* Thomas Griffith Taylor
* Paul Topinard
* John H. Van Evrie
* Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer
* Alexander Winchell
* Ludwig Woltmann

Publications|

* An Essay upon the Causes of the Different Colours of People in Different Climates (1744)
* The Outline of History of Mankind (1785)
* Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question (1849)
* An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races (1855)
* The Races of Europe (Ripley, 1899)
* The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century (1899)
* Race Life of the Aryan Peoples (1907)
* Heredity in Relation to Eugenics (1911)
* Castes in India (1916)
* The Passing of the Great Race (1916)
* The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy (1920)
* The Myth of the Twentieth Century (1930)
* Annihilation of Caste (1936)
* An Investigation of Global Policy with the Yamato Race as Nucleus (1943)
* The Race Question (1950)

Related|

* Ethnogenesis
* Eugenics
* Great chain of being
* History of anthropometry
* Miscegenation
* Monogenism
* Multiracial
* Polygenism
* Pre-Adamite
* Pre-modern conceptions of whiteness

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