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- Title
Anecdotal, Historical and Critical Commentaries on Genetics Darwin and Darwinism: The (Alleged) Social Implications of The Origin of Species.
- Authors
Orr, H. Allen
- Abstract
Most scientific theories, even revolutionary ones, change the practice of a particular science but have few consequences for culture or society at large. But Darwinism, it has often been said, is different in this respect. Since the publication of The Origin of Species, many have claimed that Darwinism has a number of profound social implications. Here, I briefly consider three of these: the economic, the political, and the religious. I suggest that, for the most part, these supposed implications have been misconstrued or exaggerated. Indeed, it is reasonably clear that the chain of implication sometimes primarily ran in the opposite direction--from, for instance, economics and political theory to Darwinism.
- Subjects
GENETICS; BIOLOGICAL evolution; NATURAL selection; ON the Origin of Species (Book : Darwin); DARWIN, Charles, 1809-1882; SCIENCE &; society
- Publication
Genetics, 2009, Vol 183, Issue 3, p767
- ISSN
0016-6731
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1534/genetics.109.110445