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Robert K. Graham (1906–1997) was co-founder and director of The Repository for Germinal Choice, a California-based sperm bank which stored and distributed the sperm of Nobel Prize winners and other men of exceptional ability. He invented and manufactured the plastic used for shatter-proof eye glasses and was author of The Future of Man. Read more …
Reflections on My Life as a Eugenicist, Part 1
View of San Francisco from the UC Berkeley campus
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One Saturday afternoon when I was 12 years old, I was at home in Memphis sitting in our den, staring into space, when my father walked into the room.
“Marian, are you aware of the fact that intelligence is largely hereditary?” he asked. Read more …