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Charles Davenport became director of the Biological Laboratory at Cold Spring Harbor in 1898. He began to build a minor scientific empire at Cold Spring Harbor. In 1904 he persuaded the Carnegie Institution of Washington to establish a Station for Experimental Evolution here, adjacent to the Bio Lab grounds, with Davenport as director. The Carnegie scientists studied heredity and breeding. By 1910 Davenport's interest had shifted to human genetics. In a classic example of well-intentioned but tragically misinformed science, Davenport established the Eugenics Record Office at Cold Spring Harbor, again with himself as director.
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