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... form of a Faculty Research Grant, and Emily Orzack and Mary Ann Russell for their proficiency in preparing the manuscript. Both Kate Schmit and Michael Joyce of the Yale University Press read the manuscript with great care and insight ...
... form of a Faculty Research Grant, and Emily Orzack and Mary Ann Russell for their proficiency in preparing the manuscript. Both Kate Schmit and Michael Joyce of the Yale University Press read the manuscript with great care and insight ...
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... 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 them, are no monopoly 2 Introduction.
... 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 them, are no monopoly 2 Introduction.
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... form) from which natural science first diverged in the midnineteenth century. Their message is, however, a very different one. Whereas a Newton or a Paley discovered in Nature evidences of God's existence and intentions and ...
... form) from which natural science first diverged in the midnineteenth century. Their message is, however, a very different one. Whereas a Newton or a Paley discovered in Nature evidences of God's existence and intentions and ...
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... form a common context in which to explore the question of man's place in nature. Because of Darwin's obvious debts — in the formulation of his theory — to the natural theology and social science of his day and to the agonistic state of ...
... form a common context in which to explore the question of man's place in nature. Because of Darwin's obvious debts — in the formulation of his theory — to the natural theology and social science of his day and to the agonistic state 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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