A warm welcome to the paperback reissue of a classic history of eugenics – the science of genetically “improving” the human species, first published in 1985. In the Name of Eugenics (Harvard University Press, £10.50/$19.95, ISBN 0 674 44557 0) has lost none of its relevance to contemporary genetics.
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