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The First International Eugenics Congress took place in London on July 24–29, 1912. It was organized by the British Eugenics Education Society and dedicated to Galton who had died the year prior. [2] Major Leonard Darwin, the son of Charles Darwin, was presiding. The five-day meeting saw about 400 delegates at the Hotel Cecil in London. [3]
Seneca the Younger The Twelve Tables of Roman Law, established early in the formation of the Roman Republic, obliged citizens by law to immediately kill any "dreadfully deformed" child. [b] And so selective infanticide seems to have been comparably widespread in Ancient Rome as it had already long been in Athens. Furthermore, according to Tacitus (c. 56 – c. 120), a Roman of the Imperial ...
Genetic history of Europe. The European genetic structure today (based on 273,464 SNPs). Three levels of structure as revealed by PC analysis are shown: A) inter-continental; B) intra-continental; and C) inside a single country (Estonia), where median values of the PC1&2 are shown. D) European map illustrating the origin of sample and ...
The history of genetics dates from the classical era with contributions by Pythagoras, Hippocrates, Aristotle, Epicurus, and others. Modern genetics began with the work of the Augustinian friar Gregor Johann Mendel. His works on pea plants, published in 1866, provided the initial evidence that, on its rediscovery in 1900's, helped to establish ...
Latin samples from Latium in the Iron Age and early Roman Republican period were generally found to genetically cluster closest to modern Northern and Central Italians (four out of six were closest to Northern and Central Italians, while the other two were closest to Southern Italians). [16] DNA analysis demonstrates that ancient Greek ...
Genetics. Gregor Johann Mendel OSA (/ ˈmɛndəl /; Czech: Řehoř Jan Mendel; [2] 20 July 1822 [3] – 6 January 1884) was an Austrian-Czech [4] biologist, meteorologist, [5] mathematician, Augustinian friar and abbot of St. Thomas' Abbey in Brno (Brünn), Margraviate of Moravia. Mendel was born in a German-speaking family in the Silesian part ...
The contemporary history of eugenics began in the late 19th century, when a popular eugenics movement emerged in the United Kingdom, [6] and then spread to many countries, including the United States, Canada, Australia, [7] and most European countries (e.g. Sweden and Germany). In this period, people from across the political spectrum espoused ...
Jan Gunnar Faye Mohr (10 January 1921 – 17 March 2009) was a Norwegian - Danish physician and geneticist, known for his discovery of the first cases of autosomal genetic linkage in man, between the Lutheran blood groups and the ABH-secretor system, and between these and the hereditary disease myotonic dystrophy.