Eugenics

Eugenics: is a set of beliefs and practices that aims at improving the genetic quality of the human population.
Who: All the citizens of a certain country, community or group.

What: reproduction of the "fittest" and limited reproduction of the "unfit" with "inferior" genes.

When: early 20th century.

Where: it can be originated anywhere.

Why: The term eugenics, derived from the Greek eugenes, was first coined by the English mathematician and geographer Francis Galton in his Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development to refer to one born "good in stock, hereditary endowed with noble qualities." As an intellectual and social movement in the early twentieth century, eugenics came to mean, in the words of one of its strongest American supporters, Charles B. Davenport, "the improvement of the human race by better breeding."

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