Charles B. Davenport

(noun)

Charles Benedict Davenport (1866–1944) was a prominent American eugenicist and biologist. He was one of the leaders of the American eugenics movement, which was directly involved in the sterilization of around 60,000 "unfit" Americans and strongly influenced the Holocaust in Europe.

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  • The Eugenics Movement

    • The Eugenics Record Office (ERO) was founded in Cold Spring Harbor, New York in 1911 by the renowned biologist Charles B.
    • Davenport, using money from both the Harriman railroad fortune and the Carnegie Institution.
    • American biologist Charles B.
    • Davenport founded the Eugenics Record Office in 1911.
    • A half-cousin of Charles Darwin, Francis Galton founded field of Eugenics and promoted the improvement of the human gene pool through selective breeding.

  • The Eugenics

    • The Eugenics Records Office (ERO) was founded in Cold Spring Harbor, New York in 1911 by the renowned biologist Charles B.
    • Davenport, using money from both the Harriman railroad fortune and the Carnegie Institution.

  • The Pragmatic Sanction

    • The Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 was an edict issued by Charles VI to ensure that the Habsburg hereditary possessions could be inherited by a daughter, but it was contested after Charles' death in 1740, which resulted in the War of Austrian Succession.
    • In 1703, Charles and Joseph, the sons of Leopold, signed the Mutual Pact of Succession, granting succession rights to the daughters of Joseph and Charles in case of complete extinction of the male line, but favoring Joseph's daughters over Charles's because Joseph was older.
    • Charles succeeded Joseph, according to the Pact, and Maria Josepha became his heir presumptive.
    • After Charles VI died, Prussia and Bavaria contested the claims of Maria Theresa on his Austrian lands.
    • Charles was, indeed, ultimately succeeded by his elder daughter Maria Theresa (born 1717).

  • Charles Darwin and Natural Selection

    • Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace independently developed the theories of evolution and its main operating principle: natural selection.
    • In the mid-nineteenth century, the mechanism for evolution was independently conceived of and described by two naturalists: Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace.
    • Both (a) Charles Darwin and (b) Alfred Wallace wrote scientific papers on natural selection that were presented together before the Linnean Society in 1858.

  • The Harlem Renaissance

    • Visual artists of the time included Charles Alston, Henry Bannarn, Leslie Bolling, Aaron Douglas, Jacob Lawrence, and Archibold Motley .
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    • Charles Henry Alston (November 28, 1907 – April 27, 1977) was an African-American painter, sculptor, illustrator, muralist and teacher who lived and worked in Harlem.
    • In the beginning Charles Alston's mural work was inspired by the work of Aaron Douglas, Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco, the latter who he met when they did mural work in New York.[3] In 1943 Alston was elected to the board of directors of the National Society of Mural Painters.

  • Limitations to the Classic Model of Phylogenetic Trees

    • Phylogenetic trees originated with Charles Darwin, who sketched the first phylogenetic tree in 1837 , which served as a pattern for subsequent studies for more than a century.
    • The (a) concept of the "tree of life" goes back to an 1837 sketch by Charles Darwin.
    • Like an (b) oak tree, the "tree of life" has a single trunk and many branches.

  • What is Evolution?

    • During the nineteenth century, Hutton's views were popularized by the geologist Charles Lyell, who was a friend of Charles Darwin.
    • (b) The Andean semiaquatic lizard (Potamites montanicola), discovered in Peru in 2010, lives between 1,570 to 2,100 meters in elevation and, unlike most lizards, is nocturnal and swims.

  • Painting and Sculpture

    • John Marin, Marsden Hartley, Alfred Henry Maurer, Arthur B.
    • Charles Sheeler and the modernists Charles Demuth and Ralston Crawford were referred to as Precisionists for their sharply defined renderings of machines and architectural forms.
    • The movement showcased the range of talents within African-American communities, and included artists such as Aaron Douglas, Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, Charles Alston, Augusta Savage, Archibald Motley, Lois Mailou Jones, Palmer Hayden, and Sargent Johnson.

  • Exponential Population Growth

    • In his theory of natural selection, Charles Darwin was greatly influenced by the English clergyman Thomas Malthus.
    • Therefore, when calculating the growth rate of a population, the death rate (D; the number organisms that die during a particular time interval) is subtracted from the birth rate (B; the number organisms that are born during that interval).
    • where $\Delta N$ = change in number, $\Delta T$ = change in time, $B$ = birth rate, and $D$ = death rate.
    • Thus, B (birth rate) = bN (the per capita birth rate "b" multiplied by the number of individuals "N") and D (death rate) = dN (the per capita death rate "d" multiplied by the number of individuals "N").

  • Nativism

    • In 1836, Samuel F.B.
    • By 1850, Charles B.