Engineering American society: The lesson of eugenics

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 153-158

  Micklos, David ^a   Carlson, Elof ^b  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ART; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION; GENOME; HISTORY; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL GENETICS; PEDIGREE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION;

EUGENICS; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETICS, MEDICAL; GENOME, HUMAN; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MALE; PEDIGREE; PORTRAITS; SOCIAL VALUES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034328691     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35038589     Document Type: Review

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