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Until 1930 circa, the debate around the sociopolitical implications of human heredity was complex and pluralistic. Though today eugenics is often thought of, especially in social-science quarters, as an exclusively hard-heredity right-wing phenomenon, at that time, a vast array of hereditarian political-epistemological philosophies aimed at control of human evolution.
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Meloni, M. (2016). A Political Quadrant. In: Political Biology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137377722_4
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