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... contemporary biology, like the so- Julian Huxley, R. A. Fisher, and Joshua Lederberg continued to support some form of eugenics. Yet it remained a minority position, held very much in disfavor. cial Darwinism and eugenics that preceded ...
... contemporary biology, like the so- Julian Huxley, R. A. Fisher, and Joshua Lederberg continued to support some form of eugenics. Yet it remained a minority position, held very much in disfavor. cial Darwinism and eugenics that preceded ...
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... contemporary 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 ...
... contemporary 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 ...
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... contemporary social biology within the preceding evolutionary debates and its broader cultural context is the aim of this book. Conceptually weak and historically ill-informed, previous attempts at a sociological analysis of this ...
... contemporary social biology within the preceding evolutionary debates and its broader cultural context is the aim of this book. Conceptually weak and historically ill-informed, previous attempts at a sociological analysis of this ...
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... contemporary world are once again worth considering, because science has not successfully eliminated them. To the sociologically minded, however, it is not enough simply to flesh out the unspoken assumptions and expose the errors of ...
... contemporary world are once again worth considering, because science has not successfully eliminated them. To the sociologically minded, however, it is not enough simply to flesh out the unspoken assumptions and expose the errors of ...
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... contemporary culture. Common to both is an apocalyptic sense of impending disaster as punishment for Western cultural crimes against biological nature and a belief in redemption through a return to the true path of biological wisdom ...
... contemporary culture. Common to both is an apocalyptic sense of impending disaster as punishment for Western cultural crimes against biological nature and a belief in redemption through a return to the true path of biological wisdom ...
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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