
Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Berlin
Year: 2001
Pages: 143-151
Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science
ISBN (Hardback): 9789401038850
Full citation:
, "The Mexican eugenics society", in: The reception of Darwinism in the Iberian world, Berlin, Springer, 2001


The Mexican eugenics society
pp. 143-151
in: Thomas F. Glick, Miguel A. Puig-Samper, Rosaura Ruiz (eds), The reception of Darwinism in the Iberian world, Berlin, Springer, 2001Abstract
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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Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Berlin
Year: 2001
Pages: 143-151
Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science
ISBN (Hardback): 9789401038850
Full citation:
, "The Mexican eugenics society", in: The reception of Darwinism in the Iberian world, Berlin, Springer, 2001