Charles Davenport
Charles Davenport
Charles Benedict Davenportwas a prominent American eugenicist and biologist. He was one of the leaders of the American eugenics movement. Eugenics is the study of or belief in the possibility of improving the qualities of the human species or a human population, especially by such means as discouraging reproduction by persons having genetic defects or presumed to have inheritable undesirable traitsor encouraging reproduction by persons presumed to have inheritable desirable traits...
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth1 June 1866