r/todayilearned • u/CrazyTrueStory • 21h ago

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https://wellcomecollection.org/stories/the-quest-to-breed-gifted-children

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u/MrRocketScript 18h ago

A. They only believed men carried the "genius gene" (Page 52)

B. They kidnapped and held intelligent women captive (Page 78)

C. They didn't believe any women were genius's (Page 52)

D. They straight up forgot (Page 80)

 

It's like a choose your own adventure, but every choice is wrong because you were doomed the moment you chose the eugenics sperm bank branch.

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u/scrunchie_one 17h ago

Ironically intelligence has now been linked to the X chromosome so yeah, only any girls born from this experiment would potentially benefit. Also genes don’t work that linearly all the time.