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... living. By attempting to do so, these scientists have, ironically, revived the Protestant tradition of natural philosophy and theology (albeit in a secularized form) from which natural science first diverged in the midnineteenth century ...
... living. By attempting to do so, these scientists have, ironically, revived the Protestant tradition of natural philosophy and theology (albeit in a secularized form) from which natural science first diverged in the midnineteenth century ...
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... living. In pursuing these questions and interpreting these mythologies, I have frequently employed a "literary" method somewhat foreign to both the natural and social sciences. Only a close reading of the popular and social-theoretical ...
... living. In pursuing these questions and interpreting these mythologies, I have frequently employed a "literary" method somewhat foreign to both the natural and social sciences. Only a close reading of the popular and social-theoretical ...
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... living in the 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 ...
... living in the 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 ...
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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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