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... claims of the scientists to be discussed, the sweeping nature of their proposals, and the authority of science that they claim, an awareness of such guiding elements — present even in the "strictly biological" sections of their writings ...
... claims of the scientists to be discussed, the sweeping nature of their proposals, and the authority of science that they claim, an awareness of such guiding elements — present even in the "strictly biological" sections of their writings ...
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... claim to sanction? Despite the fervor of its critics, the intellectual reception of this new natural philosophy has been surprisingly swift and favorable. Important segments of the humanities and social sciences are indeed being ...
... claim to sanction? Despite the fervor of its critics, the intellectual reception of this new natural philosophy has been surprisingly swift and favorable. Important segments of the humanities and social sciences are indeed being ...
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... claimed for Homo sapiens must have appeared suspect, we are told. For some theists, agnostics, and atheists there may have been "grandeur" in this new view of life and a welcome release from a culture of arrogance and guilt, but ...
... claimed for Homo sapiens must have appeared suspect, we are told. For some theists, agnostics, and atheists there may have been "grandeur" in this new view of life and a welcome release from a culture of arrogance and guilt, but ...
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... claim to be the long- delayed Darwinian assault on mind and society. The ever more confident claims of contemporary biologists that the Darwinian Revolution was incomplete because it dealt with man only metaphorically, if at all, and ...
... claim to be the long- delayed Darwinian assault on mind and society. The ever more confident claims of contemporary biologists that the Darwinian Revolution was incomplete because it dealt with man only metaphorically, if at all, and ...
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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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