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The Mexican eugenics society

Laura Suárez Y. Lopez-Guazo

pp. 143-151

Based on family histories, i.e. heredity, and the use of multiple statistical methods, in 1865 Francis Galton defined eugenics as "the science dealing with the influences that improve inborn qualities or the raw matter of a race, and the influences that can be developed to attain the highest superiority."1

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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-010-0602-6_9

Full citation:

Y. Lopez-Guazo, L. S. (2001)., The Mexican eugenics society, in T. F. Glick, M. A. Puig-Samper & R. Ruiz (eds.), The reception of Darwinism in the Iberian world, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 143-151.

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