Monday, April 8, 2013

eugenics -- Sister Jen

eu·gen·ics (y-jnks)
n. (used with a sing. verb)
The study of hereditary improvement of the human race by controlled selective breeding.

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As a history major, Sister Jen knows that eugenics was central to Nazi philosophy during WWII.

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