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Emily Klancher Merchant

@emilymerchant.bsky.social
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Historian of science, technology, and medicine. Author of Building the Population Bomb (Oxford 2021). Currently researching the sordid history of behavior genetics.

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Emily Klancher Merchant @emilymerchant.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
My research on the long history of polygenic embryo screening for intelligence is featured in the UC Davis's Letters and Science magazine today: lettersandsciencemag.ucdavis.edu/science-tech.... The tl;dr is in the title.
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Echoes of Eugenics
UC Davis science historian Emily Merchant explores the legacy of eugenics and its echoes in today’s polygenic embryo screenings for intelligence.
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