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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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
1984.
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جدول المحتويات:
- 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.