Japan Journal of Sport Sociology
Online ISSN : 2185-8691
Print ISSN : 0919-2751
ISSN-L : 0919-2751
On Biology and Sport
Hideaki HIRANO
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2008 Volume 16 Pages 37-49

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There are three chapters in this article. Chapter I did evaluation on Hoberman's book Darwin's Athletes. It concluded that, as far as physiology is concerned, the book had nothing to do with Charles Darwin nor his theory of evolution; and found that at least his title was regretfully very misleading. Chapter II introduced the recent trends in molecular biology in detail. It concluded that we should not expect any wishful application to living humans; and also pointed out there already lied many perilous situations that could cause this sort of risky attempt to take place. Chapter III dealt that, by introducing E. & S. Ewens' latest book Typecasting, biology and physiology had broad sidelines of wrong intension and contents which claimed that one could discriminate and remodel criminals or supposedly inferior group of people. It concluded that these malicious sidelines finally led to the rise of Eugenics by Francis Galton; that those pseudo sciences incorporated the intension of remodeling artificially of man.

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