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	Podcast:		Short Wave
	Episode:		Control: Eugenics And The Corruption Of Science
	Category:		Science & Medicine
	Duration:		00:14:04
	Publish Date:		2022-11-04 04:10:56
	Description:		In 1859, Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species, a book about the evolution of non-human animals by natural selection. In its wake, a political idea arose — eugenics. Reading Darwin's book, Sir Francis Galton proposed that humans should be bred to give more "suitable" characteristics a "better chance of prevailing." Today, producer Rebecca Ramirez talks to Adam Rutherford about his new book, Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics, which traces the inextricable link between political ideology and science, and the enduring shadow of eugenics.
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