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... Biological needs and biological processes paled in significance before human reason, inventiveness, and the pursuit of meaning as determinants of how we live. Cultural evolution had long since supplanted biological evolution as the ...
... Biological needs and biological processes paled in significance before human reason, inventiveness, and the pursuit of meaning as determinants of how we live. Cultural evolution had long since supplanted biological evolution as the ...
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... biological science and technology focus increasingly on man and his 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 ...
... biological science and technology focus increasingly on man and his 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 ...
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... Biological arguments have been used to support a variety of economic and political positions. The aim of current efforts is instead to transform the human self-conception by translating our lives and history back into the language of ...
... Biological arguments have been used to support a variety of economic and political positions. The aim of current efforts is instead to transform the human self-conception by translating our lives and history back into the language of ...
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... biology and culture? What precisely are the arguments being made; what is their scientific status; and what may be their cultural significance? What exactly are the continuities and discontinuities between the social Darwinisms and ...
... biology and culture? What precisely are the arguments being made; what is their scientific status; and what may be their cultural significance? What exactly are the continuities and discontinuities between the social Darwinisms and ...
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... 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 the belief that the collapse of ...
... 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 the belief that the collapse of ...
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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The Social Meaning of Modern Biology: From Social Darwinism to Sociobiology Howard Kaye Limited preview - 2017 |
The Social Meaning of Modern Biology: From Social Darwinism to Sociobiology Howard Kaye Limited preview - 2017 |
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