Genetic Determinism Term Paper by Top Papers

The paper relates that genetic determinism came about 1900 and 1940 when it was believed that better breeding could produce a stronger human species. The paper explains that the United States, Britain and Germany were dominant in the race of understanding genetic determinism and the new science was called Mendelian genetics, also called eugenics. The paper discusses how the science was used to determine the degree in which Huntington's chorea, blindness, deafness, mental retardation, intelligence, addiction, mental disorders and unacceptable behavior was genetically responsible.