The Taming of Evolution : The Persistence of Nonevolutionary Views in the Study of Humans / / by Davydd J. Greenwood.
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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Greenwood, Davydd J. The Taming of Evolution The Persistence of Nonevolutionary Views in the Study of Humans / by Davydd J. Greenwood. Cornell University Press 2018 Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1984. ©1984. 1 online resource (225 pages) : illustrations text rdacontent computer rdamedia online resource rdacarrier This 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: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy 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. In English. Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Preface -- INTRODUCTION: The Darwinian Revolution? -- I Major Western Views of Nature -- II Simple Continuities -- III Complex Continuities -- CONCLUSION: The Unmet Challenges of Evolutionary Biology -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index Includes index. Bibliography: p. 211-220. Description based on print version record. Physical anthropology Philosophy. Sociobiology. Nature and nurture. Human evolution. Evolution 0-8014-1743-0 1-5017-1994-7 9781501719882 |
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