Leonard Darwin

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Leonard Darwin

British eugenicist

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Lancelot Thomas Hogben
Early life and education
…the British eugenicists, such as Leonard Darwin, son of Charles Darwin and president of the 1912 First International Congress of Eugenics, who publicly claimed that the poor were genetically inferior and that spending for their education was a waste of public funds.) By the time Hogben took up his scholarship…
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…the British eugenicists, such as Leonard Darwin, son of Charles Darwin and president of the 1912 First International Congress of Eugenics, who publicly claimed that the poor were genetically inferior and that spending for their education was a waste of public funds.) By the time Hogben took up his scholarship…
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