Five Large-Scale Attempts to Change the Course of Human Evolution
Charles Darwin first explicate the principles of sexual selection in his controversial record The Descent of Man ( 1871 ) . Ever since then , mass have wanted to tinker with human development via stilted intimate selection . Dictators , mad physician , and crazed social scientist have proposed — and even carried out — human breeding experiments aimed at meliorate the species . For some definition of “ improving ....