Daniel Kevles traces the study and practice of eugenics--the science of "improving" the human species by exploiting theories of heredity--from its inception in

A concise and gripping account of eugenics from its origins in the twentieth century and beyond.

A rich narrative about the science of "improving" the human race, from the 19th century to genetic engineering today.

The scope and significance of cytoplasmic inheritance has been the subject of one of the longest controversies in the history of genetics. In the first major bo

Eugenics was a term coined in 1883 to name the scientific and social theory which advocated "race improvement" through selective human breeding. In Europe and t