Eugenics is a broad term for a variety of social programs that
attempt to "breed out" certain undesirable biological traits
from human society, or that "breed in" more desirable traits.
Eugenics is essentially an outgrowth of Social Darwinism, as can
be seen by the fact that it is discussed as a possible remedy
for social problems more often than for medical or biological
ones. |See Eugenics in Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.| The
popularity of this concept reached its peak in the western world
between the 1930s and 1950s; it featured prominently in many
plans of the Nazi Party. Eugenics is different from natural
selection because it replaces natural law with human desire as
the driving force behind evolution. Eugenics proponents
sometimes rationalize this replacement by arguing that natural
selection is no longer applicable to modern society, due to the
lack of elements that would kill off people who wouldn't survive
in the wild. They then claim that since natural causes cannot
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