Dysgenesis

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  • noun. Defective or abnormal development of an organ, especially of the gonads.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Difficulty in breeding; difficult generation; sterility; infecundity.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A condition of not generating or breeding freely; infertility; a form of homogenesis in which the hybrids are sterile among themselves, but are fertile with members of either parent race.
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  • noun. Defective development
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  • noun. infertility between hybrids
  • Word Usage
    "Rather, they favor policies that will stop some suffering in the short run but which will cause dysgenesis."
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