Emily Klancher Merchant
@emilymerchant.bsky.social
Historian of science, technology, and medicine. Author of Building the Population Bomb (Oxford 2021). Currently researching the sordid history of behavior genetics.
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.
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.
lettersandsciencemag.ucdavis.edu
August 27, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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.