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... hopes, answer our most troubling questions, and lend both cosmic and scientific sanction to a new order of living. In pursuing these questions and interpreting these mythologies, I have frequently employed a "literary" method somewhat ...
... hopes, answer our most troubling questions, and lend both cosmic and scientific sanction to a new order of living. In pursuing these questions and interpreting these mythologies, I have frequently employed a "literary" method somewhat ...
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... hopes, engulfing our most precious creed, and burying our highest life in mindless desolation. . . . The flood-gates ... hope to develop a new historical perspective with which to examine contemporary efforts in a very different light ...
... hopes, engulfing our most precious creed, and burying our highest life in mindless desolation. . . . The flood-gates ... hope to develop a new historical perspective with which to examine contemporary efforts in a very different light ...
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... hopes, privileges, and responsibilities previously 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 ...
... hopes, privileges, and responsibilities previously 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 ...
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... hope." For Muller, a passionate and lifelong advocate of eugenics, Darwinism was to be both a guide to social policy and, more important, an "ideology." Evolutionary biology would help America win its struggle with the Soviets for the ...
... hope." For Muller, a passionate and lifelong advocate of eugenics, Darwinism was to be both a guide to social policy and, more important, an "ideology." Evolutionary biology would help America win its struggle with the Soviets for the ...
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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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