• Charles Benedict Davenport (June 1, 1866 – February 18, 1944) was a biologist and eugenicist influential in the American eugenics movement.
  • photo of Charles Davenport 1927 Charles Benedict Davenport was born on 1 June 1866 at Davenport Ridge, the family’s summer home near Stamford...
  • Charles Benedict Davenport, distinguished zoologist, geneticist and eugenist, was born on his father's farm near Stamford, Conn., on June I, 1866.
  • Charles Davenport was one of the most prominent biologists of his time. He was born in Stamford, Connecticut, and went to Harvard University for his education.
  • Charles Benedict Davenport was an early twentieth-century experimental zoologist. Davenport founded both the Station for Experimental Evolution and the...
  • A proponent of Eugenics crusade, Charles Davenport believed that selective breeding could transform the human race.
  • The Charles B. Davenport Papers contains the professional correspondence of one of America's best known eugenicists during the period 1915 to 1935.
  • Durind the 1910s and 1920s, Charles Davenport studied how physical and behavioral characteristics were passed from parents to children.