In other words, eugenics, a concept, which the writer thankfully abandoned shortly thereafter.

换句话说，优生，一个概念，谢天谢地，作者不久就放弃了。

The intersection of eugenics and IQ testing influenced not only science, but policy as well.

优生和智商测试之间形成关联不仅影响了科，也影响了政策。

And we tried to fit in then every other person into one of these categories, and that...really influenced eugenics.

我们试图让所有人都归入这些人种类型，这确实影响了优生。”

Somewhat unsurprisingly there was so much eugenics.

毫不奇怪，有如此多优生。

When such calculations enter the process, it is similar to eugenics.

当这样进入过程时， 它类似于优生。

He's a proponent of eugenics, according to his student Plato.

据他生柏拉图说，他是优生支持者。

Social Darwinism became of a piece with eugenics in the popular culture.

社会达尔主义在化中成为优生一部分。

At best, that meant understanding it; at worst, it involved sinister forms of control, as in Julian's lifelong enthusiasm for eugenics.

往好了说，是了解世界；往坏了说，就是用邪恶方式掌控世界，朱利安毕生对优生热情就是个例子。

There was a eugenics rising, and my grandparents realized, pretty quickly I think, that they were on the wrong side of the eugenics equation.

当时有一种优生正在兴起，我想我爷爷，应该很快就明白，在优生方面，他们选错边站了。

And in fact, we can just go back one century to the last century to see the power that eugenics can have.

实际上，我们只要回到上个世纪，就能看到优生带来了什么影响。

By the late 1960s, research into human genetics was more nuanced, and bioethics had begun to blunt eugenics’ influence.

到 1960 年代后期， 对人类遗传研究更加细致入微，生物伦理开始削弱优生影响。

Sure, that may sound like a noble plan but eugenics spiraled into extreme discrimination against people deemed “unfit” to procreate.

当然， 这听起来像是一个崇高划， 但优生却演变成对被认为“不适合” 生育人极端歧视。

I think, for instance, of our own history: our resistance to co-education for so long or our leadership at one time in eugenics.

比如，历史上我们曾错误地认为男女不应该同校，以及引领了“优生运动”风潮。

He also embraced eugenics, writing about how he believed black people to be inferior to white people in Notes on the State of Virginia.

他还信奉人种改良，他在《弗吉尼亚州笔记》中写道，他认为黑人劣于白人。

At that time, many people believed in eugenics, the idea that desirable and undesirable genetic traits could and should be controlled in humans through selective breeding.

当时，很多人都相信优生（eugenics），形容理想和不理想遗传性状可以且应该通过选择性育种来控制。

Under the influence of eugenics, scientists used the results of the military initiative to make erroneous claims that certain racial groups were intellectually superior to others.

在优生影响下，科家们利用军事倡议结果，提出了一种错误主张：某些种族人们在智力上优于其他种族。

Another absolutely ridiculous belief running rampant the 1920s was something called eugenics, the idea that we should control the genetic traits passed down in society.

另一个在 20 年代盛绝对荒谬信念是所谓优生，即我们应该控制在社会中传递遗传特征想法。

But the problems eugenics supporters wanted to rid from society actually relied on a mix of environmental and biological factors, rather than just genes themselves.

但优生支持者想要从社会中摆脱问题实际上依赖于环境和生物因素结合，而不仅仅是基因本身。

For me, it was very … YOCHAI MAITAL: Like, a genetical, like improving… MAYA KOSOVER: Oh, you felt like you were doing like a eugenics.

对我来说，这非常...... YOCHAI MAITAL：就像，遗传，就像改进...... MAYA KOSOVER：哦，你感觉你正在做优生。

And they do statues, and then they were first displayed at the American Museum of Natural History as part of, like, one of those eugenics congresses.

他们制作雕像，然后它们首先在美国自然历史博物馆展出，作为优生大会一部分。