Discussions about the Holocaust, genocide and eugenics could be part of the science curriculum for middle and high school students in Maine as education officials update the state’s learning standards ...

Theodore Dru Alison “Theo” Cockerell was one of the early 20th-century’s best-known entomologists. Widely considered the foremost expert on bees, he was a prolific writer and researcher, and professor ...

A marker in Indianapolis describes the history of a 1907 Indiana eugenics law (Radharc Images/Alamy). This essay is a Cover Story selection, a weekly feature highlighting the top picks from the ...

The U.S. participation in eugenics – the pseudoscientific field predicated on the belief that humanity’s gene pool can be improved through selective breeding – remains opaque almost 100 years after ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Eugenics, or the pseudoscience of human breeding, reached the height of its notoriety in the early 1900s but never truly disappeared, according to a new book that examines the ...

One hundred and sixty years ago this month, the Augustinian monk Gregor Mendel presented his experiments on pea plants to a group of scientists in Brno, Moravia, in which he offered a revolutionary ...

King's College London provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Andrew Sabisky, a UK government adviser, recently resigned over comments supporting eugenics. Around the same time, the ...

If those who survive are the fittest, does that also make them the best? And if so, is engineering ‘better’ babies just evolution, or another step in a long history of eugenics? Once genetic lesions ...

H.G. Wells’s fictional vision of human evolution in “The Time Machine” (1895) is a bifurcation of our species 800,000 years in the future. Wells was much more accurate about the direction of our ...

Orlice “Lisa” Hodges clutches an educational brochure about North Carolinas’ eugenics program on August 5, 2021, in Raleigh. As a young woman, Hodges was told by relatives that her aunt was “fixed”- a ...

Caltech announced Friday that it would remove the name of its founding president and first Nobel laureate, Robert A. Millikan, from campus buildings because he supported eugenics — joining ...