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... questions]" (1964, p. 117), but the same could not be said today. Biology, we are told, can now reveal to us, scientifically, who we are, why we are here, and how we are to live. Denounced as yet another revival of social Darwinism and ...
... questions]" (1964, p. 117), but the same could not be said today. Biology, we are told, can now reveal to us, scientifically, who we are, why we are here, and how we are to live. Denounced as yet another revival of social Darwinism and ...
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... questions and to locate contemporary social biology within the preceding evolutionary debates and its broader cultural context is the aim of this book. Conceptually weak and historically ill-informed, previous attempts at a sociological ...
... questions and to locate contemporary social biology within the preceding evolutionary debates and its broader cultural context is the aim of this book. Conceptually weak and historically ill-informed, previous attempts at a sociological ...
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... 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 foreign to both the natural and ...
... 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 foreign to both the natural and ...
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... question of man's place in nature. Because of Darwin's obvious debts — in the formulation of his theory — to the natural theology and social science of his day and to the agonistic state of Victorian society, his work was accessible to ...
... question of man's place in nature. Because of Darwin's obvious debts — in the formulation of his theory — to the natural theology and social science of his day and to the agonistic state of Victorian society, his work was accessible to ...
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... questions, the list of sociologically relevant forces must not be dogmatically limited to economic and political interests, as has too often been the case. The quest for cohesion, direction, and meaning are also potent social forces ...
... questions, the list of sociologically relevant forces must not be dogmatically limited to economic and political interests, as has too often been the case. The quest for cohesion, direction, and meaning are also potent social forces ...
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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