The Taming of Evolution

The Taming of Evolution
Author :
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Total Pages : 218
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781501719943
ISBN-13 : 1501719947
Rating : 4/5 (947 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Taming of Evolution by : Davydd Greenwood

Download or read book The Taming of Evolution written by Davydd Greenwood and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 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.


The Taming of Evolution Related Books

The Taming of Evolution
Language: en
Pages: 218
Authors: Davydd Greenwood
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-03-15 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

GET EBOOK

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
The Taming of a Highlander
Language: en
Pages: 394
Authors: Elisa Braden
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-12-08 - Publisher: Elisa Braden

GET EBOOK

A Scot on fire Wrongfully imprisoned and tortured by an unseen enemy, Broderick MacPherson lives for one purpose—punishing the villain who targeted him. But w
The Taming of Free Speech
Language: en
Pages: 472
Authors: Laura Weinrib
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-10-10 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

GET EBOOK

In the early decades of the twentieth century, business leaders condemned civil liberties as masks for subversive activity, while labor sympathizers denounced t
William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Clueless
Language: en
Pages: 193
Authors: Ian Doescher
Categories: Young Adult Nonfiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-04-14 - Publisher: Quirk Books

GET EBOOK

Celebrate Clueless and rolleth with the homies with this illustrated adaptation of the cult classic script, retold in Shakespearean verse by the best-selling au
The Taming of the Queen
Language: en
Pages: 496
Authors: Philippa Gregory
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-08-25 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

GET EBOOK

By the #1 New York Times bestselling author, a novel of passion and power at the court of a medieval killer, a riveting new Tudor tale featuring King Henry VIII