This is a classic article from New Scientist’s archive, republished as part of our 50th anniversary celebrations
SOME critics of the eugenic movement assert that deliberate, large-scale improvement of the human race is impossible until we have a much more detailed scientific knowledge of human genetics. Others claim that eugenic improvement could be brought about only by rigorous authoritarian methods.
Both views, in the opinion of Sir Julian Huxley, are untrue. In the Galton Lecture to the Eugenics Society last week he said that by relying on our knowledge of the course of pre-human evolution and present day species formation,…
