Cacogenics

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The aggregation of factors, through adverse sexual selection and reproduction, tending to promote inferior genetic characteristics in humans. uncountable
  2. 2
    the study of the operation of factors causing degeneration in the type of offspring produced wordnet

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dysgenicsdysgenics

Etymology

From cacogenic.

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