Eugenics

<p><b >Eugenics</b>&nbsp;(<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English" title="Help:IPA for English" >/</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English" >j</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English" >uː</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English" >ˈ</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English" >dʒ</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English" >ɛ</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English" >n</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English" >ɪ</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English" >k</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English" >s</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English" title="Help:IPA for English" >/</a>; from&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek" title="Ancient Greek" >Greek</a>&nbsp;εὐγενής&nbsp;<i >eugenes</i>&nbsp;"well-born" from εὖ&nbsp;<i >eu</i>, "good, well" and γένος&nbsp;<i >genos</i>, "race, stock, kin")<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics#cite_note-2" >[2]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics#cite_note-3" >[3]</a></sup>&nbsp;is the belief and practice which aims at improving the&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetics" title="Genetics" >genetic</a>&nbsp;quality of the&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_population" title="Human population" class="mw-redirect" >human population</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics#cite_note-4" >[4]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Galton1904_5-0" class="reference" ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics#cite_note-Galton1904-5" >[5]</a></sup>&nbsp;It is a&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_philosophy" title="Social philosophy" >social philosophy</a>&nbsp;advocating the improvement of human genetic traits through the promotion of higher reproduction of people with desired traits (positive eugenics), and reduced reproduction of people with less-desired or undesired traits (negative eugenics)</p>

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