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Is eugenics available and if not when will it be?

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Eugenics is the selective breeding of human beings to encourage certain characteristics.

As such it has existed since it was noticed that children looked like their parents.

It is however unreliable due to the problems of identifying the causes of the desirable characteristics.

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