EDUCATION UGC NET
PSYCHOLOGY
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Question
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25%
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12.5%
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50%
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75%
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Detailed explanation-1: -Galton’s mathematical law of genetics attributed an average of 1/4 contribution by each parent, and 1/16 by each grandparent, and so on through one’s ancestry, such that the sum of the contribution by all of one’s ancestors approached 1.
Detailed explanation-2: -Galton’s eugenics was a program to artificially produce a better human race through regulating marriage and thus procreation. Galton put particular emphasis on “positive eugenics", aimed at encouraging the physically and mentally superior members of the population to choose partners with similar traits.
Detailed explanation-3: -Galton was convinced that social and mental traits, like talent and intelligence, were inherited (Galton, 1865; Galton, 1869).
Detailed explanation-4: -Galton coined the word eugenics to denote scientific endeavours to increase the proportion of persons with better than average genetic endowment through selective mating of marriage partners.