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The Taming of Evolution : The Persistence of Nonevolutionary Views in the Study of Humans /

The theory of evolution has clearly altered our views of the biological world, but in the study of human beings, evolutionary and preevolutionary views continue to coexist in a state of perpetual tension. The Taming of Evolution addresses the questions of how and why this is so. Davydd Greenwood off...

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Autor principal: Greenwood, Davydd J. (Autor)
Format: Electrònic eBook
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1984.
Col·lecció:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Matèries:
Sociobiologie.
Evolutietheorie.
Sociobiology.
Physical anthropology > Philosophy.
Nature and nurture.
Human evolution.
Evolution (Biology)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
evolution.
Évolution (Biologie)
Anthropologie physique > Philosophie.
Heredite et milieu.
Homme > Évolution.
Biological Evolution
Electronic books.
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Taula de continguts:
  • Introduction : the Darwinian revolution?
  • I. Major western views of nature
  • 1. Humoral/environmental theories and the chain of being
  • 2. Evolving natural categories : Darwin's unique legacy
  • II. Simple continuities
  • 3. Humoral politics : races, constitutional types, and ethnic and national character
  • III. Complex continuities
  • 4. Purity of blood and social hierarchy
  • 5. An enlightenment humoralist : Don Diego de Torres Villarroel
  • 6. Human sociobiology
  • 7. Cultural materialism
  • Conclusion : the unmet challenges of evolutionary biology.

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