Eugenics manifesto was the name given to an article supporting

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, published in 1939 in the journal ''

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'', entitled ''Social Biology and Population Improvement''.Eugenics Manifesto
Site with this "manifesto" and its signatories. The original name of this manifesto is "Social Biology and Population Improvement". Nature Magazine of September, 1939, with just a small part of the article. In 2004,

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wrote that the document denounced Hitler's racism and the economic and political conditions that create antagonism between the races. "The Second World War had already begun, and the authors explicitly decried antagonism between races and theories according to which certain good or bad genes are the monopoly of certain peoples."

Signatories

The 23 British and American men who signed the manifesto are listed below.John Nedham Galton Institute
John Postgate ''Eugenics returns'' *

Francis Albert Eley Crew Francis Albert Eley Crew FRS FRSE LLD (2 March 1886 – 26 May 1973) was an English animal geneticist. He was a pioneer in his field leading to the University of Edinburgh’s place as a world leader in the science of animal genetics. He was ...

Cyril Dean Darlington Cyril Dean Darlington (19 December 1903 – 26 March 1981) was an English biologist, cytologist, geneticist and eugenicist, who discovered the mechanics of chromosomal crossover, its role in inheritance, and therefore its importance to evolutio ...

John Burdon Sanderson Haldane John Burdon Sanderson Haldane (; 5 November 18921 December 1964), nicknamed "Jack" or "JBS", was a British-Indian scientist who worked in physiology, genetics, evolutionary biology, and mathematics. With innovative use of statistics in biolog ...

* S. C. Harland * Lancelot T. Hogben * Julian S. Huxley *

Hermann Joseph Muller Hermann Joseph Muller (December 21, 1890 – April 5, 1967) was an American geneticist, educator, and Nobel laureate best known for his work on the physiological and genetic effects of radiation (mutagenesis), as well as his outspoken political ...

Joseph Needham Noel Joseph Terence Montgomery Needham (; 9 December 1900 – 24 March 1995) was a British biochemist, historian of science and sinologist known for his scientific research and writing on the history of Chinese science and technology, in ...

* G. P. Child * P. R. David *

Gunnar Dahlberg Gunnar Dahlberg (1893–1956) was a Swedish physician, eugenist and geneticist A geneticist is a biologist or physician who studies genetics, the science of genes, heredity, and variation of organisms. A geneticist can be employed as a ...

Theodosius Dobzhansky Theodosius Grigorievich Dobzhansky (russian: Феодо́сий Григо́рьевич Добржа́нский; uk, Теодо́сій Григо́рович Добржа́нський; January 25, 1900 – December 18, 1975) was a prominent ...

* Rollins Adams Emerson * C. Gordon * J. Hammond * Charles Leonard Huskins * Peo Charles Koller * Walter Landauer * Harold Henry Plough * Bronson Price * J. Schultz * Arthur G. Steinberg *

Conrad Hal Waddington Conrad Hal Waddington (8 November 1905 – 26 September 1975) was a British developmental biologist, paleontologist, geneticist, embryologist and philosopher who laid the foundations for systems biology, epigenetics, and evolutionary devel ...

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