Body Politic; The Genetics of Politics  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 405 no. 8805 (Oct. 2012), page 93-94.
Topik: Family; Parenting; Culture and Lifestyle; Science; Biology

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In 1882 W.S. Gilbert wrote, to a tune by Sir Arthur Sullivan, a ditty that went "I often think it's comical how Nature always does contrive/that every boy and every gal that's born into the world alive/is either a little Liberal or else a little Conservative." In the 19th century, that view, though humorously intended, would not have been out of place among respectable thinkers. The detail of a man's opinion might be changed by circumstances. But the idea that much of his character was ingrained at birth held no terrors. It is not, however, a view that cut much ice in 20th-century social-scientific thinking, particularly after the second world war. Those who allowed that it might have some value were generally shouted down and sometimes abused, along with all others vehemently suspected of the heresy of believing that genetic differences between individuals could have a role in shaping their behavioural differences.

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