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... behavior. Western biologists and social scientists were now nearly unanimous in their belief that not only were ... behavioral flexibility, the role of natural selection in shaping our lives and societies appeared greatly diminished ...
... behavior. Western biologists and social scientists were now nearly unanimous in their belief that not only were ... behavioral flexibility, the role of natural selection in shaping our lives and societies appeared greatly diminished ...
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... behavior and as the modern world appears ever more threatening. Beginning in the 1960s, a number of leading scientists in the areas of molecular biology, ethology, and sociobiology have renewed the attempt to biologize social theory by ...
... behavior and as the modern world appears ever more threatening. Beginning in the 1960s, a number of leading scientists in the areas of molecular biology, ethology, and sociobiology have renewed the attempt to biologize social theory by ...
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... behavior, that order, we are told, can now be grasped scientifically. The time has come, it is argued, to give up our deluded sense of special status in nature and the values that it sanctioned — the values of "mind," "self," and "soul ...
... behavior, that order, we are told, can now be grasped scientifically. The time has come, it is argued, to give up our deluded sense of special status in nature and the values that it sanctioned — the values of "mind," "self," and "soul ...
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... behavioral, and even political responses to the phenomena addressed. If undesirable behavior is "genetically programmed," then "genetic reprogramming" may appear attractive; if man, like all other organisms, is a "survival machine ...
... behavioral, and even political responses to the phenomena addressed. If undesirable behavior is "genetically programmed," then "genetic reprogramming" may appear attractive; if man, like all other organisms, is a "survival machine ...
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... behavioral options are open — reveals "biological man." Recognizing at last the bio-logic and limits of sexuality itself and acknowledging survival as his highest value, "biological man" is an ideal character type with a growing ...
... behavioral options are open — reveals "biological man." Recognizing at last the bio-logic and limits of sexuality itself and acknowledging survival as his highest value, "biological man" is an ideal character type with a growing ...
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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