Eugenics is a social movement in the early twentieth century that sought to apply genetic selection in order to “improve” the human race.
Eugenics is a branch of applied genetics which attempts to improve the inherited qualities of a species by selective breeding. When the species concerned is Homo sapiens, the goals, values, criteria and methods of eugenics immediately become ethical questions-which have been debated since Plato first proposed them in the fourth century BC.