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... political positions. The aim of current efforts is instead to transform the human self-conception by translating our lives and history back into the language of nature so that we might once again find a cosmic guide for the problems of ...
... political positions. The aim of current efforts is instead to transform the human self-conception by translating our lives and history back into the language of nature so that we might once again find a cosmic guide for the problems of ...
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... political swing to the right in the 1970s (1983, p. 307). To paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, "the new biological determinism [of the 1970s] rests upon no recent fund of information" but is instead the result of "contemporary social ...
... political swing to the right in the 1970s (1983, p. 307). To paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, "the new biological determinism [of the 1970s] rests upon no recent fund of information" but is instead the result of "contemporary social ...
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... political responses to the phenomena addressed. If undesirable behavior is "genetically programmed," then "genetic reprogramming" may appear attractive; if man, like all other organisms, is a "survival machine," then "tinkering" may ...
... political responses to the phenomena addressed. If undesirable behavior is "genetically programmed," then "genetic reprogramming" may appear attractive; if man, like all other organisms, is a "survival machine," then "tinkering" may ...
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... political interests, as has too often been the case. The quest for cohesion, direction, and meaning are also potent social forces. Nor can we afford to forget that to societies in crisis, illogic may prove powerfully attractive and the ...
... political interests, as has too often been the case. The quest for cohesion, direction, and meaning are also potent social forces. Nor can we afford to forget that to societies in crisis, illogic may prove powerfully attractive and the ...
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... political unconscious (for a recent version of this curiously Lamarckian argument, see Reich 1982). Yet, in light of such views on social Darwinism and the Darwinian Revolution, how was it possible for the Nobel Prize-winning geneticist ...
... political unconscious (for a recent version of this curiously Lamarckian argument, see Reich 1982). Yet, in light of such views on social Darwinism and the Darwinian Revolution, how was it possible for the Nobel Prize-winning geneticist ...
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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