How To Use dysgenic In A Sentence
- The term 'dysgenics' was first used by David Starr Jordan in 1915 when he postulated that wars killed off the fitter men while the less fit were left at home. Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
- This dysgenic crisis would surely bring communism and the regression of mankind.
- It takes multiple centuries for dysgenics to inflict a significant toll or, on the flip side, traditional eugenics to achieve anything; history is now moving too quickly for that sort of thing to be relevant. Where Dysgenics Goes Wrong: Comparative Advantage Strikes Again, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
- In the generations following a dysgenic cross, the IF invades the genome until it reaches 10-15 copies per haploid genome and is progressively repressed through an autoregulation process.
- Claims about dysgenics usually quickly degenerate into a big debate about nature vs. nurture. Dysculturation?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
- Our nobly intended welfare programs may be encouraging dysgenics-retrogressive evolution through disproportionate reproduction of the genetically disadvantage … We fear that 'fatuous beliefs' in the power of welfare money, unaided by eugenic foresight, may contribute to a decline of human quality for all segments of society. Climate Progress
- War was considered dysgenic - it killed off society's best.
- Evolution of a smaller jaw would at best be a result of devolution, dysgenics caused by the accumulation of mutations.
- The idea of licensing parents, or licensing parenting, is quite new, but the concept of promoting eugenics or discouraging dysgenics have historical roots, as does the idea of producing many children for the good of society-without regard to their genetic quality. Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
- The simplest reason to not worry about dysgenics is the imminent arrival of at least limited human germline engineering. Where Dysgenics Goes Wrong: Comparative Advantage Strikes Again, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty