Biology under the Influence Dialectical Essays on the Coevolution of Nature and Society

Name: Biology under the Influence Dialectical Essays on the Coevolution of Nature and Society
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ISBN: 9781583671573

ISBN-10: 1583671579

ISBN-13: 9781583671573

Edition: 2007

Authors: Richard Lewontin, Richard Levins

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How do we understand the world? While some look to the heavens for intelligent design, others argue that it is determined by information encoded in DNA. Science serves as an important activity for uncovering the processes and operations of nature, but it is also immersed in a social context where ideology influences the questions we ask and how we approach the material world. Biology Under the Influence: Dialectical Essays on the Coevolution of Nature and Society breaks from the confirms of determinism, offering a dialectical analysis for comprehending a dynamic social and natural world.In Biology Under the Influence, Richard Lewontin and Richard Levins provide a devastating critique of…

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List price: $29.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
Publication date: 11/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 402
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Richard Levins is John Rock Professor of Population Sciences, Department of Population and International Health at Harvard University.



Dedication


Introduction






The End of Natural History?



The Return of Old Diseases and the Appearance of New Ones



False Dichotomies



Chance and Necessity



Organism and Environment



The Biological and the Social



How Different Are Natural and Social Science?



Does Anything New Ever Happen?



Life on Other Worlds



Are We Programmed?



Evolutionary Psychology



Let the Numbers Speak



The Politics of Averages



Schmalhausen's Law



A Program for Biology






Ten Propositions on Science and Antiscience



Dialectics and Systems Theory



Aspects of Whole and Parts in Population Biology



Strategies of Abstraction



The Butterfly ex Machina



Educating the Intuition to Cope with Complexity



Preparing for Uncertainty






Greypeace



Genes, Environment, and Organisms



The Dream of the Human Genome



Does Culture Evolve?



Is Capitalism a Disease?: The Crisis in U.S. Public Health



Science and Progress: Seven Developmentalist Myths in Agriculture



The Maturing of Capitalist Agriculture: Farmer as Proletarian



How Cuba Is Going Ecological



Living the 11th Thesis


Notes


Index