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Multilingual Demographic Dictionary, second unified edition, English volume

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Genetics maybe? Eugenics has a very bad name both in Europe (Nazi history) and America (sterilization of mentally handicapped, etc.)--Stan BECKER 20:31, 25 November 2014 (CET)

Etienne van de Walle, in 2005, told me that he was willing to delete this section on eugenism... --Nicolas Brouard (talk) 17:36, 22 July 2018 (CEST)
A distinction was made between positive eugenics 1, aimed at increasing the number of persons believed to have desirable characteristics, and negative eugenics 2 aimed at restricting the reproduction of persons expected to transmit undesirable characteristics or hereditary defects 3. To be checked. (talk) 18:37, 24 July 2018 (CEST)

915 Double checked

I would put genetic text in separate chapter from socio-economic things; biological and social/economic do not seem to mix well here.--Stan BECKER 20:31, 25 November 2014 (CET)

We know. To be changed in the third edition. Double checked ==Nicolas Brouard (talk) 18:38, 24 July 2018 (CEST)