• @Echolynx@lemmy.zip
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      1917 hours ago

      Also the popularity of eugenics began in the US. You even read about it in The Great Gatsby.

      • @jaybone@lemmy.world
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        1114 hours ago

        It began in England. Out of Darwinism. Once people had to accept that the Ancient Greek philosophies of “the ideal form” couldn’t exist. (Because of evolution, everything is always evolving) But you could use Darwin and Mendel and genetics to engineer the biology you preferred.

    • @jaybone@lemmy.world
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      And where did the Romans get it from? Egypt? I guess it couldn’t have been China, because they were also doing their own version of this several thousand miles away.

      • MrScottyTay
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        1114 hours ago

        The Romans were very open to having foreigners become citizens. Especially in the context of their time period.