Empower curiosity about the people, places, and stories of our past. Drawing of a tree with a banner over it reading Eugenics. The roots of the tree are labeled with sciences and fields connected to …

Many organizations and journals that had their origins in the eugenics movement began to distance themselves from the philosophy which spawned them, as when Eugenics Quarterly was renamed …

A timeline highlighting key moments in the development of eugenics, with a focus on the American eugenics movement.

Dec 4, 2025 · Eugenics, the selection of desired heritable characteristics to improve future generations, typically in reference to humans. The term eugenics was coined in 1883 by British scientist Francis …

Nov 15, 2017 · Modern eugenics, more often called human genetic engineering, has come a long way—scientifically and ethically—and offers hope for treating many devastating genetic illnesses. …

The metaphor of a tree with many roots and branches was intended to identify eugenics as a subject with multidisciplinary resources and to encourage participation from many types of experts.

May 31, 2022 · Ross MacFarlane explores the deep roots of the concept of the tree as a visual metaphor, and how it became entangled with eugenic thinking. This small illustration, sketched in …

Feb 24, 2012 · The text describes eugenics as “the self direction of evolution” and declares that “like a tree eugenics draws its materials from many sources and organizes them into a harmonious entity.” …

Eugenics tree illustration Eugenics tree illustration, showing the movement to be rooted in diverse fields such as genealogy, genetics, religion, and anthropology.

Though our focus is on European and American eugenics, we will show how the interfaces and interactions between science and society have evolved over time but have remained ever constant.