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We must, if we are to be consistent, and if we're to have a real pedigree herd, mate the best of our men with the best of our women as often as possible, and the inferior men with the inferior women as seldom as possible, and bring up only the offspring of the best.

—Plato, The Republic, Book V, Pt. VI

Eugenics is the purported study of altering human reproduction with the goal of changing the relative frequency of traits in a human population. It was the most popular form of biological determinism in modern history.