Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics by Adam Rutherford

Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics

Adam Rutherford with Greg Patmore (Narrator)

7 hours, 29 minutes first pub 2022 (editions) user-added

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 Control is a book about eugenics, what geneticist Adam Rutherford calls “a defining idea of the twentieth century.” Inspired by Darwin’s ideas about evolution, eugenics arose in Victorian England as a theory for improving the British population, ...

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informative: 97%

challenging: 52%

reflective: 42%

dark: 41%

sad: 9%

adventurous: 4%

emotional: 4%

inspiring: 4%

tense: 4%

hopeful: 3%

funny: 2%

mysterious: 1%


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