Open AccessTaking Exception to Human Eugenics
Author(s) -
Frederick P. Roth,
John Wakeley
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
genetics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.792
H-Index - 246
eISSN - 1943-2631
pISSN - 0016-6731
DOI - 10.1534/genetics.116.192096
Subject(s) - eugenics , scholarship , exceptionalism , genetics , biology , human genetics , reading (process) , genealogy , sociology , environmental ethics , law , political science , gene , history , philosophy , politics
We are concerned that the Perspectives article “Mutation and Human Exceptionalism: Our Future Genetic Load” by Michael [Lynch (2016)][1] opens the dark chapter of eugenics without clearly reading it as a cautionary tale.Given the history of eugenics, especially high standards for scholarship,
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