Francis Galton

Humans have long tried to understand a quicksilver quality that defies explanation.

Despite assumptions about its demise, it is still enmeshed in the foundations of how some professions think about the world.

We want to acknowledge — and learn from — our history.

“Pseudoscience,” race, and American politics.

Exposing the damned lies of three science pioneers.

On Daniel Okrent's "The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics, and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America."

How eugenics shaped America's immigration policy.

From origin stories to blood-purity statutes, we have long enlisted genealogy to serve our own purposes.

Audrey Clare Farley on the scientists who weaponized biology.

Here’s how we came to label the coded language.

In discussions about facial-recognition software, phrenology analogies seem like a no-brainer. In fact, they’re a dead-end.

Our identity is mapped at our fingertips, but also, maybe, our individual fate.

Fifty years after Loving v. Virginia, four scholars consider the legacy of the famous Supreme Court decision.

It's impossible to revisit the history of America's quest for racial purity without sometimes being reminded of the current public discourse.

When academics embraced scientific racism, immigration restrictions, and the suppression of “the unfit”.