Reasons for the abandonment of eugenics include all of the following EXCEPT
A) Adolf Hitler's embracement of the philosophy in order to eliminate those "unfit."
B) greater understanding that IQ tests were culturally biased.
C) the southern states' desire to justify racial segregation.
D) greater understanding that the ideas were inaccurately and simplistically derived from evolutionary biology.
Answer: C
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