The Future of Human Heredity: An Introduction to Eugenics in Modern Society by Frederick Osborn
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Overview: Modern medicines can know cure or alleviate mankind’s communicable diseases. Modern birth-control pills can now stem or halt mankind’s burgeoning populations. But the geneticist remain urgently concerned with the problem of individually inherited defects, the cause of misery and suffering to some four million individuals and their families in this country alone. And the eugenist is increasingly preoccupied with the broad tendencies in modern life that affect the distribution of those hereditary qualities basic to intelligence, vitality and character.
This far-sighted, knowledgeable and humane book is an introduction to the genetics of population. Following a brief and cogent reviews of man’s genetic past, Mr. Osborn discusses recent changes in the ways of life of the more advanced societies that tend toward generational variation in the proportion of the genetically favored, the bright, and those with special as well as generalized abilities.
Modern medicine, public health measures, social and geographical mobility have benefited modern man immeasurably, but they also contain genetic pitfalls for many now unborn. The noted author discusses these contemporary tendencies, but also sees a distinct measure of hope. Today’s imbalance may, even now, be veering again in the direction of inherited health and vigor for greater numbers of our fellow man. Th. Dobzhansky provides a foreword.
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