But biological explanations of human behaviour are making a comeback as the generation of academics that feared them as a covert way of justifying eugenics , or of thwarting marxist utopianism , is retiring .
If charles darwin is the father of modern biology , then the father of modern intelligence testing is his cousin , francis galton statistician , polymath and founder of eugenics .
By 1983 , graham 's sperm bank was reputed to have 19 repeat genius donors , including william bradford shockley ( 1956 nobel prize in physics and proponent of eugenics ) and two anonymous nobel prize winners in science .
The carnegie name was also linked indirectly with the nazis , through the carnegie institution 's funding of research into eugenics in the early 20th century that was later taken up by germany .
So using eugenics , a method of breeding to emphasize specific traits , the nazis hoped to invade the genetic spirals of evolution , seize control and replace " unfit " foreign crops and livestock with pure ones .
Well , stanford really didn 't do anything about it except let him keep on keeping on , even making him a professor emeritus when he retired ( about 10 years after he started airing his views on eugenics ) .