#eutelegenesis

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Most reform eugenicists were aware that man as yet knew too little about human heredity to enact sweeping eugenic changes, let alone usher in a eutelegenetic utopia.

"In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity" - Daniel J. Kevles

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However innocuous the techniques, he expected that eutelegenesis would be "stigmatized as immoral and not respectable".

"In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity" - Daniel J. Kevles

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Between the ages of twenty-five and fifty-five, the normal man was estimated to produce about three hundred and forty billion sperm. By comparison, women produced only a miniscule number of ova. If only one out of a thousand of the male sperm was utilized, Brewer noted enthusiastically, one man in a year could fertilize five million women. Eutelegenesis thus "immensely magnified" the reproductive power of "a few superior males."

"In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity" - Daniel J. Kevles

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In Eugenics and Politics, a 1937 pamphlet published by the Society, he observed that the aims of eutelegenesis were not merely compatible with socialism: "They are socialism, biological socialism. . . . They involve nothing less than a socialization of the germ plasm, the establishment of the right of every individual that is born to the inheritance of the finest hereditary endowment that anywhere exists."

"In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity" - Daniel J. Kevles

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Muller declared in Out of the Night that "in the course of a paltry century or two . . . it would be possible for the majority of the population to become of the innate quality of such men as Lenin, Newton, Leonardo, Pasteur, Beethoven, Omar Khayyám, Sun Yat-sen (I purposely mention men of different fields and races), or even to possess their varied faculties combined." Women were noticeably absent from Muller's pantheon of talent; the role of women in eutelegenesis amounted to little more than that of conceptual vessels for the sperm of valuable men.

"In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity" - Daniel J. Kevles

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