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... scientists were now nearly unanimous in their belief that not only were biological concepts and analogies of virtually no use as an aid to our understanding of human society; they were dangerously misleading as well. Man was indeed an ...
... scientists were now nearly unanimous in their belief that not only were biological concepts and analogies of virtually no use as an aid to our understanding of human society; they were dangerously misleading as well. Man was indeed an ...
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... scientists and laymen, as biological science and technology focus increasingly on man and his behavior and as the modern world appears ever more threatening. Beginning in the 1960s, a number of leading scientists in the areas of ...
... scientists and laymen, as biological science and technology focus increasingly on man and his behavior and as the modern world appears ever more threatening. Beginning in the 1960s, a number of leading scientists in the areas of ...
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... 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. Their message is, however, a very ...
... 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. Their message is, however, a very ...
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... scientists — who since the birth of science as an autonomous profession have tended to be remarkably cautious and reticent about the broader implications of their work — now so aggressive in their pursuit of this new pastoral role? What ...
... scientists — who since the birth of science as an autonomous profession have tended to be remarkably cautious and reticent about the broader implications of their work — now so aggressive in their pursuit of this new pastoral role? What ...
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... scientists are attempting not to render capitalism "natural" but to reorder our psyches and societies. Thus, it is not as ideologies that these writings can best be understood but as "scientific mythologies" (Toul- min 1957) — dramatic ...
... scientists are attempting not to render capitalism "natural" but to reorder our psyches and societies. Thus, it is not as ideologies that these writings can best be understood but as "scientific mythologies" (Toul- min 1957) — dramatic ...
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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The Social Meaning of Modern Biology: From Social Darwinism to Sociobiology Howard Kaye Limited preview - 2017 |
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