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... popular as well, a fact not lost on major book and magazine publishers. Unlike the biosocial writings of the past, recent efforts have not focused merely on such specific social problems or issues as the biological basis of deviance or ...
... popular as well, a fact not lost on major book and magazine publishers. Unlike the biosocial writings of the past, recent efforts have not focused merely on such specific social problems or issues as the biological basis of deviance or ...
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... popular and social-theoretical writings of scientists can bring to the surface the various preconceptions, interests, and beliefs that have influenced the implications drawn from their work. Scientific knowledge does not have social ...
... popular and social-theoretical writings of scientists can bring to the surface the various preconceptions, interests, and beliefs that have influenced the implications drawn from their work. Scientific knowledge does not have social ...
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... popular culture, too, the theme of a culturally caused apocalypse followed by biological redemption is often central. Disaster movies in particular possess this same mythic structure (Roddick 1980). A group of overstuffed, overcivilized ...
... popular culture, too, the theme of a culturally caused apocalypse followed by biological redemption is often central. Disaster movies in particular possess this same mythic structure (Roddick 1980). A group of overstuffed, overcivilized ...
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... popular literature as Piers Paul Read's Alive (1974) and Terrence Des Pres's The Survivor (1976) — is one of the new elect whose innate abilities have enabled them to triumph over the moral squeamishness and social conventions that ...
... popular literature as Piers Paul Read's Alive (1974) and Terrence Des Pres's The Survivor (1976) — is one of the new elect whose innate abilities have enabled them to triumph over the moral squeamishness and social conventions that ...
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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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