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100 1 _aGreenwood, Davydd,
_eauthor.
245 1 4 _aThe Taming of Evolution :
_bThe Persistence of Nonevolutionary Views in the Study of Humans /
_cDavydd Greenwood.
264 1 _aIthaca, NY :
_bCornell University Press,
_c[2018]
264 4 _c©1984
300 _a1 online resource :
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tFigures --
_tPreface --
_tINTRODUCTION: The Darwinian Revolution? --
_tI Major Western Views of Nature --
_tII Simple Continuities --
_tIII Complex Continuities --
_tCONCLUSION: The Unmet Challenges of Evolutionary Biology --
_tNotes --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex
506 0 _aOpen Access
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520 _aThe 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 offers a sustained critique of the nature/nurture debate, revealing the complexity of the relationship between science and ideology. He maintains that popular contemporary theories, most notably E. O. Wilson's human sociobiology and Marvin Harris's cultural materialism, represent pre-Darwinian notions overlaid by elaborate evolutionary terminology. Greenwood first details the humoral-environmental and Great Chain of Being theories that dominated Western thinking before Darwin. He systematically compares these ideas with those later influenced by Darwin's theories, illuminating the surprising continuities between them. Greenwood suggests that it would be neither difficult nor socially dangerous to develop a genuinely evolutionary understanding of human beings, so long as we realized that we could not derive political and moral standards from the study of biological processes.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
540 _aThis eBook is made available Open Access. Unless otherwise specified in the content, the work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) license:
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546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Sep 2018)
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