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This was a fear shared, with all its eugenicist implications, by W. D. Hamilton, one of the most influential evolutionary biologists of the second half of the twentieth century.
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Erik Baker, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025
Such a bird’s eye view of existence, however, can lead to extremely problematic lines of thought that are heartless at best, and actively eugenicist at worst.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 7 May 2025
Harry Laughlin, a eugenicist based at a research laboratory in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, was one of this movement’s most vocal representatives.
—Alex Green, The Conversation, 10 Mar. 2025
Mussolini’s Motherhood Factories Matthew Wills April 1, 2022 In fascist Italy, childbirth, breastfeeding and motherhood were given a hybrid structure of industrial management and eugenicist biological essentialism.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 3 Mar. 2025
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Erik Baker, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025
Such a bird’s eye view of existence, however, can lead to extremely problematic lines of thought that are heartless at best, and actively eugenicist at worst.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 7 May 2025
Harry Laughlin, a eugenicist based at a research laboratory in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, was one of this movement’s most vocal representatives.
—Alex Green, The Conversation, 10 Mar. 2025
Mussolini’s Motherhood Factories Matthew Wills April 1, 2022 In fascist Italy, childbirth, breastfeeding and motherhood were given a hybrid structure of industrial management and eugenicist biological essentialism.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 3 Mar. 2025
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eugenicist
noun
eu·gen·i·cist
-ˈjen-ə-səst 
: a student or advocate of eugenics
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