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Carl Zimmer _ She Has Her Mother's Laugh:
Guns and slavery grew even more intertwined in the Galton family fortune. By the 1750s, the Galtons were delivering more than twenty-five thousand guns a year to European traders, who sold the weapons to African states engaged in increasingly bloody battles. The warring states captured prisoners in the fights, and then sold them to European slave traders. Before long, they demanded to be paid for the slaves with more guns instead of gold.
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Carl Zimmer _ She Has Her Mother's Laugh:
The ability to read DNA allowed scientists to measure this genetic similarity in real people. In 2006, Peter Visscher, a geneticist at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research in Australia, and his colleagues studied 4,401 pairs of siblings, examining several hundred genetic markers in each volunteer. The siblings often had a series of identical genetic markers along a chromosome-segments they inherited from one of their parents.
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Carl Zimmer _ She Has Her Mother's Laugh:
Based on their research, the Sanger scientists estimated that an embryo gains two or three new mutations every time its cells double.
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Carl Zimmer _ She Has Her Mother's Laugh:
defective genes.
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Carl Zimmer _ She Has Her Mother's Laugh:
White was convinced that the "moron majority," as he dubbed it, must be a recent development.
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Carl Zimmer _ She Has Her Mother's Laugh:
When news of the results got out, it caused many Americans to look at their country with a new sense of self-loathing. "We have a working majority of voters who have children's minds," a prominent newspaper editor named William Allen White declared."
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Carl Zimmer _ She Has Her Mother's Laugh:
The "whole problem of heredity has undergone a complete revolution," Bateson declared. Mendel's discoveries could at last mature into a true science. Bateson christened it genetics.
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Carl Zimmer _ She Has Her Mother's Laugh:
In 1973, the year of his death, Garrett railed against the constitutional right to vote, complaining how "the vote of the feeble-minded person counts as much as that of an intelligent man.
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Carl Zimmer _ She Has Her Mother's Laugh:
In the years after he was forced out of Vineland, Goddard drifted away from the eugenics movement. Rather than figuring out how to keep the feebleminded from having children, Goddard spent his time trying to find ways to help children, no matter their condition. "As for myself," Goddard once said, "I think I have gone over to the enemy.
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Carl Zimmer _ She Has Her Mother's Laugh:
By the dawn of the twentieth century, eugenics had begun taking root in the United States, and there it flowered into darker blooms. American eugenicists wanted to prevent people with bad traits from having children. Some argued for institutionalizing the feebleminded to stop them from having sex. Some called for sterilization. In 1900, an American physician named W. D. McKim went so far as to call for "a gentle painless death." He envisioned the construction of gas chambers to kill "the very weak and the very vicious." It would be pointless to try to improve these people through experience, because, McKim declared, "heredity is the fundamental cause of human wretchedness.
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Carl Zimmer _ She Has Her Mother's Laugh:
When Morgan looked at the pedigrees of families like the Kallikaks, he did not see undeniable proof of the heredity of feeblemindedness. He saw instead many generations of poor people suffering enduring hardships. "It is obvious that these groups of individuals have lived under demoralizing social conditions that might swamp a family of average persons," Morgan wrote.
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Carl Zimmer _ She Has Her Mother's Laugh:
To reach that conclusion, testing advocates had to ignore all sorts of experiences that could influence the scores-especially those in early childhood, when the brain is still developing.
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