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Lead book review

Eugenics will never work — thankfully

The creation of a master race is an ancient idea which, thankfully, can never work, says Sam Leith

5 February 2022

9:00 AM

5 February 2022

9:00 AM

Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics Adam Rutherford

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, pp.278, 12.99

In his first book, How to Argue With a Racist, the geneticist Adam Rutherford set out a lucid account of how the basis for many widely held and apparently commonsensical ideas about race are pseudoscientific; and he lightly sketched, along the way, the historical context in which they arose and the ideological prejudices that nourished them.

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