AllanCrossman comments on This Failing Earth - Less Wrong

19 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 24 May 2009 04:09PM

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Comment author: AllanCrossman 25 May 2009 10:15:01AM *  8 points [-]

But this isn't enough to say that India was "doing eugenics". Eugenics involves a conscious effort to ensure that people with "the desired traits" produce more children than other people. Did that occur?

Comment author: blogospheroid 25 May 2009 03:00:21PM 1 point [-]

Interesting question - Probably only in the kshatriya caste where polygyny was practiced. Not so in the other castes.