Promethia: Yet many contend that humanity can benefit from the perpetuation of only the most desirable of traits, for example intelligence. Future Generations is a website specifically designed to promote eugenics. It contains documents written by many scholars including Charles Murray, a well-know scientific mind. They focus on five main points in their mission statement. The first point is that human intelligence is largely hereditary.  Scientific evidence shows that adopted children’s IQs resemble their biological parents' IQs more similarly than that of the parents who adopted them.  Also, identical twins separated at birth and raised apart are surprisingly alike in IQ.  Heredity counts a great deal in life.  As Future Generations states very clearly, “The majority of researchers in the field of intelligence testing believe heredity is more important than environment in explaining variations in IQ scores among individuals” (Vancourt).

 

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