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Galton “advocated the regulation of marriage and family size according to hereditary endowment of parents,” Gould noted in his classic 1981 book “The Mismeasure of Man.”

Last year, MPs backed plans to get rid of hereditary peers from the House of Lords.

Tim has a separate, hereditary kidney condition, called polycystic kidney disease.

Dubai is ruled as an absolute monarchy, with a hereditary royal family at the head of government, and was found by Amnesty international to jail political prisoners.

The Earl of Devon is what he calls an "unashamed" proponent of hereditary peers.