Charles Benedict Davenport (1866-1944)
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Charles Benedict Davenport [5] was an early twentieth-century experimental zoologist. Davenport founded both the Station for Experimental Evolution and the Eugenics Record Office at Cold Spring Harbor in New York. Though he was a accomplished as a statistician and as a scientist, Davenport?s also has a legacy as the scientific leader of the eugenics movement [6] in the US. Eugenics, an attempt to apply genetic science to improve humanity by selective breeding, was a major public health movement in Europe and the United States in the twentieth century prior to World War II. Davenport?s involvement in the eugenics movement [6] helped pave the way for the sterilization [7] of tens of thousands of US citizens.
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