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... simply providing a scientific excuse for existing social inequalities and injustices by presenting them as biologically necessary (see, for example, E. Allen et al. 1975; Sociobiology Study Group 1977; Lewontin et al. 1984) is to miss ...
... simply providing a scientific excuse for existing social inequalities and injustices by presenting them as biologically necessary (see, for example, E. Allen et al. 1975; Sociobiology Study Group 1977; Lewontin et al. 1984) is to miss ...
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... simply the expression of our naturally selected genetic programs, the survival and replication of which is our ultimate purpose. As the historian Donald Fleming (1969b) correctly noted, many contemporary biologists, in contrast to the ...
... simply the expression of our naturally selected genetic programs, the survival and replication of which is our ultimate purpose. As the historian Donald Fleming (1969b) correctly noted, many contemporary biologists, in contrast to the ...
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... simply be denounced as sources of scientific error. As philosophers of science and sociologists of knowledge have begun to argue, every scientific investigation, whether successful or unsuccessful, is also "an exegesis of our ...
... simply be denounced as sources of scientific error. As philosophers of science and sociologists of knowledge have begun to argue, every scientific investigation, whether successful or unsuccessful, is also "an exegesis of our ...
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... simply to flesh out the unspoken assumptions and expose the errors of logic that underpin the messages presented. We need to know why these are the assumptions and errors made, why these are the messages delivered, and with what effect ...
... simply to flesh out the unspoken assumptions and expose the errors of logic that underpin the messages presented. We need to know why these are the assumptions and errors made, why these are the messages delivered, and with what effect ...
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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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