Degeneration

Related keyterms: anthropological criminology, atavism, Boer War, decadence, decline plot, declining birth rate, devolution, downward spiral, health, heredity, hysteria, national decline, national health, naturalism, neurasthenia, parasitism, "people of the abyss," pessimism, physiognomy, race suicide

Related figures: Comte de Buffon (Georges-Louis Leclerc: 1707-1788), Cesare Lombroso (1835-1909), Bénédict Morel (1809-1873), Max Nordeau (1849-1923)

Also see: Primitivism