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... 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 misleading as ...
... 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 misleading as ...
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... biologists, in contrast to the social Darwinists of the past, have become cultural revolutionaries, resolute in their determination to break with a culture now seen to be both scientifically discredited and biologically maladaptive ...
... biologists, in contrast to the social Darwinists of the past, have become cultural revolutionaries, resolute in their determination to break with a culture now seen to be both scientifically discredited and biologically maladaptive ...
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... biologists to deduce such far-ranging implications from their scientific work is neither the logic of facts nor the illogic of naturalistic and genetic fallacies, but the guiding presence of metaphysical, moral, and social assumptions ...
... biologists to deduce such far-ranging implications from their scientific work is neither the logic of facts nor the illogic of naturalistic and genetic fallacies, but the guiding presence of metaphysical, moral, and social assumptions ...
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... biologists whose writings are examined here are no doubt correct in their belief that we must develop a greater consciousness of ourselves as biological beings, but it is the aim of this book to remind us that, despite the knowledge ...
... biologists whose writings are examined here are no doubt correct in their belief that we must develop a greater consciousness of ourselves as biological beings, but it is the aim of this book to remind us that, despite the knowledge ...
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... biologists and sociobiol- ogists have so often been forced into the polemical conceptual mold of social Darwinism, their deeper continuities and discontinuities with the preceding century of debate on the social meaning of evolutionary ...
... biologists and sociobiol- ogists have so often been forced into the polemical conceptual mold of social Darwinism, their deeper continuities and discontinuities with the preceding century of debate on the social meaning of evolutionary ...
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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