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... possible for biologists to deduce such far-ranging implications from their scientific work is neither the logic of facts nor the illogic of naturalistic and genetic fallacies, but the guiding presence of metaphysical, moral, and social ...
... possible for biologists to deduce such far-ranging implications from their scientific work is neither the logic of facts nor the illogic of naturalistic and genetic fallacies, but the guiding presence of metaphysical, moral, and social ...
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... possible. This attitude toward contemporary life is even reflected in everyday speech. The word survivor is no longer limited to one who endures a disaster. Now a new kind of hero, a survivor — as glorified by such works of popular ...
... possible. This attitude toward contemporary life is even reflected in everyday speech. The word survivor is no longer limited to one who endures a disaster. Now a new kind of hero, a survivor — as glorified by such works of popular ...
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... possible for the Nobel Prize-winning geneticist Hermann J. Muller to declare in 1959 that "One Hundred Years without Darwinism Are Enough"? Remarkably, what Muller deplored was precisely the absence of any Darwinian Revolution in the ...
... possible for the Nobel Prize-winning geneticist Hermann J. Muller to declare in 1959 that "One Hundred Years without Darwinism Are Enough"? Remarkably, what Muller deplored was precisely the absence of any Darwinian Revolution in 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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