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... Western biologists and social scientists were now nearly unanimous in their belief that not only were biological concepts and analogies of virtually no use as an aid to our understanding of human society; they were dangerously ...
... Western biologists and social scientists were now nearly unanimous in their belief that not only were biological concepts and analogies of virtually no use as an aid to our understanding of human society; they were dangerously ...
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... Western cultural crimes against biological nature and a belief in redemption through a return to the true path of biological wisdom. Manifestations of this attitude are readily available. The counterculture of the 1960s was built upon ...
... Western cultural crimes against biological nature and a belief in redemption through a return to the true path of biological wisdom. Manifestations of this attitude are readily available. The counterculture of the 1960s was built upon ...
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... Western world view and self- conception. It seems self-evident to many that Darwinism carried with it radical and terrifying implications that, once recognized, transformed virtually all areas of human thought and belief. According to ...
... Western world view and self- conception. It seems self-evident to many that Darwinism carried with it radical and terrifying implications that, once recognized, transformed virtually all areas of human thought and belief. According to ...
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... Western biologists . . . the source of the profoundest idealism and hope." For Muller, a passionate and lifelong advocate of eugenics, Darwinism was to be both a guide to social policy and, more important, an "ideology." Evolutionary ...
... Western biologists . . . the source of the profoundest idealism and hope." For Muller, a passionate and lifelong advocate of eugenics, Darwinism was to be both a guide to social policy and, more important, an "ideology." Evolutionary ...
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Contents
From Metaphysics to Molecular Biology | 44 |
From Molecular Biology to Social Theory | 77 |
The Natural Theology of E O Wilson | 96 |
The Popularization of Human Sociobiology | 136 |
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