Mystery of Mysteries: Is Evolution a Social Construction?With the recent Sokal hoax--the publication of a prominent physicist's pseudo-article in a leading journal of cultural studies--the status of science moved sharply from debate to dispute. Is science objective, a disinterested reflection of reality, as Karl Popper and his followers believed? Or is it subjective, a social construction, as Thomas Kuhn and his students maintained? Into the fray comes Mystery of Mysteries, an enlightening inquiry into the nature of science, using evolutionary theory as a case study. |
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... Genes , the units of heredity , are found along the chromosomes , and the entire set of genes within a cell ( the genotype ) is the same ( with some exceptions ) throughout the body of each individual . In addition to being the units of ...
... gene out as a " bad , " short - lived one ? There might be several such universal properties , but there is one which is particularly relevant to this book : at the gene level , altruism must be bad and selfishness good ... Genes are ...
... Genes : Biology , Ideology and Human Nature . New York : Pantheon . Longino , H. 1990. Science as Social Knowledge . Princeton , N.J .: Princeton University Press . Lumsden , C. J. , and E. O. Wilson . 1981. Genes , Mind , and Culture ...
Contents
KARL POPPER AND THOMAS KUHN Two Theories of Science | 13 |
ERASMUS DARWIN From Fish to Philosopher | 37 |
CHARLES DARWIN On the Origin of Species | 54 |
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