Reddit reviews The Gene: An Intimate History

I found "The Gene" to be pretty helpful.

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https://www.amazon.com/Gene-Intimate-History-Siddhartha-Mukherjee/dp/1432837818

You could’ve just google Eugenics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics_in_the_United_States

If you want some reading that contained this information, get the book “The Gene: An Intimate History” by Siddartha Mukherjee

https://www.amazon.com/Gene-Intimate-History-Siddhartha-Mukherjee/dp/1432837818

You can find information about Fascism by reading books about the history and development of Western philosophy. Fascism is the ideological successor to the Holy Roman Empire and in more modern times it was a reaction to the Enlightenment and to the French Revolution. Any books that deal with those topics will discuss Fascism in the context of the era.

I agree the world will survive if you learn about Fascism but that’s not why you are down voted. Most people feel that Fascism is an ideology that had catastrophic consequences for the countries who adopted it, most notably Hitler's Germany. Those consequences were not only bad for Germany and its citizens but also for a lot of other people which is why it is taboo.

I might take the opportunity to mention that Fascism was based on several pseudo-scientific ideas which were later debunked by advances in genetics that mostly took place after the decline of Facism. If you want to get into the details, this book goes into very deep detail explaining why ethno-nationalism is complete nonsense from the perspective of the genetics. It also has a lot of history about Fascist Germany.

Tranforming Matter is a very good overview of the history of chemistry/atomic physics from the enlightenment onward.

The Gene has some very good stuff on genetics and molecular biology.

To an extent yes. The moral/intellectual failing of early eugenicists was mistaking phenotype for genotype. Assuming phyhsical characteristics and behaviors with little or no genetic basis were confered by genetics. IE: crime and head size, race and financial accumen

As our understanding of genetics deepens, choices made by informed parents will more and more resemble the practice of eugenics (intentionally changing the genetic makeup of a population)

The Gene is a remarkable and approachable book on the topic. It explores the history of genetic science, the failings of those who miss-applied it and how modern practices and genetic engineering look moving forward