Reading – Writing Assignment 2 Write a 500-word essay on the following topic: Explain the factors that affect human’s IQ (Intelligence Quotient). Draft 2: Recent research has equipped numerous evidences as well as complicated a vigorous debate about the effect of nature and nurture on human intelligence. While a majority of geneticists and behavioral scientists have currently accepted the assumption of the idea that human intelligence is affected both genetic and environmental influences‚ there
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Nature VS Nature M1: The nature theory looks into things such as personality‚ aggression‚ sexual orientation and there intelligence. Nature refers to an individual’s innate qualities; nature is in your genes and is passed down through your mother and father. Your physical and personality traits will stay the same from the instant you are born as they are passed down through your genes. Examples are physical features that are inherited‚ these traits cannot be changed and you have them all throughout
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Eugenics: A Flawed Reproductive Method Eugenics emerged in the late 19th century as a scientific ideology aiming to improve the genetic quality of the human population through selective breeding. Initially hailed as a beacon of progress‚ it garnered support for its purported ability to weed out undesirable traits and enhance desirable ones‚ thus improving societal well-being. However‚ beneath its veneer of promise lie inherent flaws that challenge its ethical foundations and practical implementation
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Argument for and against Eugenics Eugenics is the applied science which advocates the use of practices armed at improving the genetic composition of a population‚ usually a monkey’s population‚ but in the story Star Trek Space Seed‚ it is practiced on the human population by a group of eccentric scientists. The humans that were produced from the selective breeding process had “five times the strength of a normal human being and five times the intellect”. This led to the Eugenics War which pitted the
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for organic revolution (Larson‚ 2009). Individuals were classified as inferior and a justification of actions caused against them based on Darwinism. The life of immigrants in America was greatly eugenics as well as the aspects of Social Darwinism; while fundamentalist Christians opposed Darwin.
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Despite the common belief that eugenics were practiced solely by Hitler and his followers during the Holocaust‚ the original exploration of eugenics began in the United States. Many organizations in American funded eugenic research‚ then the ideas were exchanged into Hitler’s possession. After Hitler set about achieving his goal of a “Master Race”‚ prisoners in concentration camps encountered the harsh techniques used to fulfill Hitler’s desires. In camps‚ such as Auschwitz‚ harsh Nazi soldiers would
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Eugenics has a number of issues involved such as: the procedure‚ the elimination process‚ the freedom and the constant need for “perfection”. It’s very easy to cross the line with eugenics because of the freedom it provides it almost seems limitless. Human beings have an issue with trying to perfect what doesn’t need perfecting and trying to create a perfect world‚ where no one is sick and everyone has a high IQ‚ it’s just unrealistic. The misuse of eugenics in the attempt to create a quote unquote
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Eugenics‚ forced sterilization in the United States Eugenics is the belief that selecting‚ partners‚ controlling the reproduction of certain groups of women‚ and controlling the generating of offspring improves the quality of human life. This practice dates back to ancient Greece‚ but after the Nazis adopted the practice of forced sterilization‚ it gained much criticism and scrutiny and was disapproved of by many people. Forced sterilization in history has almost always been dictated by people
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Eugenics Eugenics‚ the practice of “improving” the human race by selective breeding‚ is an idea that gained widespread dominance during the late 19th century. In 1883‚ English scientist Francis Galton (1822–1911) coined the word eugenics‚ from the Greek word eugenes‚ meaning “well-born” or “hereditarily endowed with noble qualities” (Door‚ 2018). As the father of eugenics‚ Galton crafted the concept based on Gregor Mendel’s laws of heredity and created a positive and negative eugenics system. Worldwide
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Eugenics‚ meaning “well born” is a term coined and a field created by Francis Galton‚ a British scientist. In 1869‚ Galton constructed pedigrees of leading English families using biographical information from obituaries and other sources and concluded that superior intelligence and abilities were inherited with an efficiency of 20%. From this research Galton theorized that if the fittest members of society were to have more children then humanity could be improved. In the early 1900s the eugenics
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