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... genetic differences in the distribution of mental and moral traits among individuals and races appeared insignificant; and morally, because of the cruelties committed in their name. Remarkably, this consensus is now losing its hold on ...
... genetic differences in the distribution of mental and moral traits among individuals and races appeared insignificant; and morally, because of the cruelties committed in their name. Remarkably, this consensus is now losing its hold on ...
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... genetic programs, the survival and replication of which is our ultimate purpose. As the historian Donald Fleming (1969b) correctly noted, many contemporary biologists, in contrast to the social Darwinists of the past, have become ...
... genetic programs, the survival and replication of which is our ultimate purpose. As the historian Donald Fleming (1969b) correctly noted, many contemporary biologists, in contrast to the social Darwinists of the past, have become ...
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Howard L. Kaye. genes" as the "hidden masters" of our fate, these scientists are attempting not to render capitalism "natural" but to reorder our psyches and societies. Thus, it is not as ideologies that these writings can best be ...
Howard L. Kaye. genes" as the "hidden masters" of our fate, these scientists are attempting not to render capitalism "natural" but to reorder our psyches and societies. Thus, it is not as ideologies that these writings can best be ...
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... genetic programming," "selfish genes," or aggressive "drives" is neither compulsory nor a careless use of language. Such conceptualizations are as rich in meaning and moral consequences as were "natural selection" and the "survival of ...
... genetic programming," "selfish genes," or aggressive "drives" is neither compulsory nor a careless use of language. Such conceptualizations are as rich in meaning and moral consequences as were "natural selection" and the "survival of ...
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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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