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  • noun the study of the operation of factors causing degeneration in the type of offspring produced.

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  • noun medicine The opposite of eugenics; the aggregation of factors, through adverse sexual selection, tending to promote the deterioration of the race.

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  • noun the study of the operation of factors causing degeneration in the type of offspring produced

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