dysgenic

To the extent that genetic influences caused these trees to be larger, their removal would result in a proportionate dysgenic selection.

Regularly featuring episodes of world calamity--outbursts of terrorism, dysgenic programs that cripple the species--Daniel's narrative is a record left by the old that instructs the new and naive.

Thus, scientists at the time viewed World War I as entirely dysgenic. At the same time, scientists understood that some incurable and debilitating mental physical disorders were hereditable and for the sake of current public welfare and future generations measures were needed to prevent the perpetuation of such disorders into future gene pools.

In the April 1932 issue of her organization's Birth Control Review, Sanger proposed "to give certain dysgenic groups in our population their choice of segregation or sterilization."

One might expect Pinker to be sympathetic to the argument that the wide availability of legal abortion causes people to have fewer unwanted children, who are more likely to become criminals, but he presents a different kind of argument that has some interesting dysgenic implications:

A thoroughgoing Darwinist might wonder whether the modern world has spawned dysgenic conditions with respect to traits that code for intelligence.

The resulting Immigration Restriction Act halted the immigration of "dysgenic" Italians, Russians, and eastern European Jews, whose numbers had mushroomed between 1900 and 1920, thereby legally prohibiting Jews from coming to the U.S.

Fisher (who became chairman of the Eugenics Society's family allowances subcommittee) Darwin conceded that the Society needed to take a stance on the issue, which it did in 1926, although many continued to see family allowances as a dysgenic scheme (Soloway, 1990: 298; Blacker to Gun, 12 June 1933).

In patients with ovotestes, the ovarian tissue contains follicles and is functional, whereas the testicular tissue is dysgenic. Thus these individuals express female phenotypes.

Curtis's Huffington Post piece alludes to this when she describes the daughters as "privileged but from varying backgrounds." "White-trash" is usually a derogatory term for poor, often rural, whites with little education and a lack of "manners," situating them as "a breed apart, a dysgenic race unto themselves" (Newitz and Wray, 2).

Featuring immigrants in "old" country and "new," Antin demonstrates first that they are not dysgenic, second, that they in fact may be eugenic, but finally, that America's obligation to provide a favorable environment outweighs eugenics issues.

While the family histories of both genders contained information not directly related to genetics, but related to environmentally "dysgenic" influences, the family histories of female patients were characterized by an emphasis on sexually appropriate (or inappropriate) behaviors which far outweigh in emphasis any of the other social dysfunctions in their lives.

Writer-director Andrew Stanton ("Finding Nemo") sets loose a squatter version of the cute robot from the 1986 comedy "Short Circuit" in the dysgenic consumerist wasteland of Mike Judge's suppressed 2006 satire "Idiocracy." Indeed, Stanton's vision of a smoggy, trash-strewn Earth resembles a big-budget remake of Judge's cult classic.

The World, 1966 (dubbed the first discotheque), strangely paralleled later works such as Imagimotion, 1968 (an "information column" with eighteen projectors forming a mosaic of televisual political imagery), in exploring both the dysgenic and the utopian dimensions of mediatized life.

He said, 'As someone interested in world affairs as much as biology, I can make a more immediate, confident and cheerless forecast than any moral psychologist, evolutionary or otherwise; that history will not end with a Darwinian whimper in some distant dysgenic future, but quite soon and suddenly, with an emphatic Einsteinian bang.'