The pseudonym for a celebrated family, most of whose members were social misfits, feebleminded, and degenerate. ... See: Kallikak. ... (05 Mar 2000) ... Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20973
Type: Term Pronunciation: jūks Definitions: 1. The pseudonym for a celebrated family, most of whose members were social misfits, feebleminded, and degenerate. the subject of arguments for now discredited theories of genetic superiority. Found on http://www.medilexicon.com/medicaldictionary.php?t=46513
the fictitious name of an actual family that was the focus of a 19th-century sociological study of the inheritance of feeble-mindedness and its correlation with social degeneracy. Cf. Kallikak. Found on https://www.infoplease.com/dictionary/jukes