Re: Is Eugenics Really A Bad Thing?

From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Mon Jul 03 2000 - 12:00:28 MDT

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"Darin Sunley" <rsunley@escape.ca> writes:

> The Howard Families, from Heinlein's "Future History", used
> large monetary incentives to encourage the children of members of the group
> to become members themselves.
>
> Has anybody ever tried an experiment like this, using fruit flies or lab
> rats or something?

Yes, people such as Michael Rose have bred "Methuselah" fruit flies
this way, by not letting them breed before a certain age and then
slowly raising this age.

See for example http://www.nap.edu/books/0309057876/html/96.html
(seems to be an interesting book)

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