... political ideas rather than scientific ones. Eugenics had dire effects in cultures of the twentieth century in many countries. During 1893, Sir Francis Galton started an inquisition on the genetic and heredity selection of desirable characteristics. Eugenics was created in the late nineteenth century ... not only taking place in such extremist countries such as Nazi Germany, these movements actually spread through into Great Britain and the United States of America. In the early 1900s America had put involuntary sterilization laws into place as well as marriage laws ... complex mental ...

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