•Eugenics, social selection of the fittest, was clearly connected to the theory of evolution by natural selection.
–Darwin, after all, began the Origin of Species explaining natural selection by analogy to artificial selection: nature selects, Darwin suggested, as does a breeder of dogs or pigeons.
•But eugenics also departed from Darwinism in several ways important for progressivism.
–Eugenics was premised on the idea that evolution by natural selection was too wasteful, too gradual, and too indifferent to progress.
–Human direction of evolution would (1) reduce waste, (2) improve heredity at a faster rate, and (3) ensure that evolutionary change was not left to blind chance, but was made progressive.
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