THE POLITICAL GENE: HOW DARWIN’S IDEAS CHANGED POLITICS

Book ID/图书代码： 11701209B33567

English Summary/英文概要： With the publication of "The Origin of Species" and "The Descent of Man", Charles Darwin not only sparked a revolution in science, but also radically changed the way millions of people thought about themselves, their societies and their values. The evolutionary science he gave birth to acquired a political dimension from the outset, and one with a deeply troubling and ongoing impact on the world in which we live. "The Political Gene" examines how scientists and politicians have sought to use Darwin’s ideas to solve social problems, or to bolster political ideologies. Social Darwinism, eugenics and scientific racialism - whose adherents have all claimed Charles Darwin as their inspiration - became associated with some of the darkest episodes in our recent past. Dennis Sewell follows the thread of theory and the historical footprints left by a myriad cast of key characters to tell an often shocking and sometimes heartbreaking story. Sewell’s narrative shows us what drove people to put a black man on display in a zoo, forcibly sterilize a pair of innocent teenage sisters, lock up a British girl for eighteen years for a petty theft, murder disabled people in Nazi Germany, and slam shut America’s ’Golden Door’. Poverty and welfare, race and immigration, education, sexual equality and human rights are just some of the public policy areas to have felt the effects of Darwinian thought. Today, rapid advances in genetic and evolutionary science are once again placing Darwin’s theories at the centre of some of the most bitterly contested cultural and political controversies. In the future, as the stakes for humanity are raised yet higher, the gene is set to become more political than ever before.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 達爾文的理論適用於政治嗎？而何謂「政治基因」呢？

達爾文的「物競天擇，適者生存」觀點不只是關係到大自然，還可以應用及影響社會的發展，應該說政治家或社會學家用它來解決社會問題、鞏固政治理念。例如社會達爾文主義，優生學和種族主義等都說是源自達爾文思想下的產物，而這些思想的信徒們在不僅改變政治生態，也在歷史中留下了不可磨滅的黑暗期。
基因是決定每個人高矮胖瘦、黑白美醜的關鍵，但是如果因為加入個人的政治（管理眾人的事）觀點，而影響他人的生存與否，那將是達爾文留給人類最殘酷的遺產。(Vincent)

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About the Author/作者介绍： Dennis Sewell is a writer and broadcaster and a Contributing Editor of The Spectator. For more than twenty years he was on the staff of BBC News, where he was a presenter of Radio 4’s Talking Politics and BBC World Service’s Politics UK, and a reporter for BBC2’s Newsnight. He is the author of CATHOLICS - Britain’s Largest Minority, published by Penguin in 2000.

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