"When under any kind of noxious influence an organism becomes debilitated, its successors will not resemble the healthy, normal type of the species, with capacities for development, but will form a new sub-species, which, like all others, possesses the capacity of transmitting to its offspring, in a continuously increasing degree, its peculiarities, these being morbid deviations from the normal form – gaps in development, malformations and infirmities"
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Bénédict Morel (1857) Treatise on Degeneration.
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Degeneration
was a widely influential concept at the interface of the social and biological sciences in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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