Eugenics is concerned with the social direction of human evolution. ... For example, Charles Darwin's son presided, while Winston Churchill led the British delegation. ... They included trust that selective breeding and choice of genetic traits is an effective means of improving the overall quality of the human species, the conviction that heredity directly determines physical, physiological, personality, and mental traits in adults, and a belief in the inherent inferiority of some races and social classes and superiority of others (Allen). ... Individual abuses of cloning, however, also ...

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Additionally, intense discussion regarding the social and moral ramifications of this controversial, multi-faceted subject is needed. ... This idea, called eugenics, dominated early 20th Century thought and is concerned with the social direction of human evolution. ... Additionally, a belief in the inherent inferiority of some races and social classes and superiority of others, was widely accepted by those who followed the Nazis (Allen 1996). ... For example, Charles Darwin's son presided over the assembly, while Winston Churchill led the British delegation. ... It is entirely possibl...

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This paper is not meant to be a history lesson in cloning or to explain all the scientific terms that are related to cloning. Instead the purpose of this paper is to give a brief history of cloning and to discuss what cloning means in the world we live in today and what effect it could have on our l...

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