“Genetic Load”: How the Architects of the Modern Synthesis Became Trapped in a Scientific Ideology
The term “genetic load” first emerged in a paper written in 1950 by the geneticist H. Muller. It is a mathematical model based on biological, social, political and ethical arguments describing the dramatic accumulation of disadvantageous mutations in human populations that will occur in modern socie...
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| Language: | English |
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Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
2018-06-01
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| Series: | Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science |
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| Online Access: | http://www.historiographyofscience.org/index.php/transversal/article/view/65/98 |