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... society; they were dangerously misleading as well. Man was indeed an animal, but one with a difference. Building ... societies appeared greatly diminished. Biological needs and biological processes paled in significance before human ...
... society; they were dangerously misleading as well. Man was indeed an animal, but one with a difference. Building ... societies appeared greatly diminished. Biological needs and biological processes paled in significance before human ...
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... societies, we are 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 ...
... societies, we are 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 ...
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... society once again exposed, the ideological support of science was once again required, "to defend existing social arrangements as biologically inevitable" (1979, pp. 201, 237-39, 247, 258; see also Lewontin et al., 1984). In addition ...
... society once again exposed, the ideological support of science was once again required, "to defend existing social arrangements as biologically inevitable" (1979, pp. 201, 237-39, 247, 258; see also Lewontin et al., 1984). In addition ...
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... societies. Thus, it is not as ideologies that these writings can best be understood but as "scientific mythologies" (Toul- min 1957) — dramatic and often anthropomorphized representations of how the world works that arouse our emotions ...
... societies. Thus, it is not as ideologies that these writings can best be understood but as "scientific mythologies" (Toul- min 1957) — dramatic and often anthropomorphized representations of how the world works that arouse our emotions ...
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... society, his work was accessible to others within this context and so readily available for extrascientific use (Young 1969, 1973; see also Gale 1972). With the creation of autonomous and professionalized scientific specialities, the ...
... society, his work was accessible to others within this context and so readily available for extrascientific use (Young 1969, 1973; see also Gale 1972). With the creation of autonomous and professionalized scientific specialities, the ...
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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