![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We’ve previously talked about Galton and eugenics back in our first series in the episode Sex and Death, which we reposted recently on the feed, so I was keen to sit down with Adam for an in-depth chat about the story of the eugenics movement, from its early days at UCL through to its present manifestation in policies such as enforced sterilisation. Today, as an honorary senior research associate at UCL, Adam continues to dig into the history of genetic, race science and eugenics in his teaching and his writing, including his most recent book, Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics, which comes out on February 3rd. And some of them didn’t shirk from pointing out the connection between the theatre’s namesake and the darkest legacy of genetics: the eugenics movement. ![]() Click here to listen to the full podcast episode…Īs an undergraduate studying genetics at UCL, Adam Rutherford sat in the Galton Lecture theatre - named after Francis Galton, Charles Darwin’s half cousin - listening to the leading lights of the field expound on the joys of genes. ![]()
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