The Taming of Evolution
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...
Tallennettuna:
| Päätekijä: | |
|---|---|
| Aineistotyyppi: | Online |
| Kieli: | englanti |
| Julkaistu: |
Cornell University Press
2022
|
| Aiheet: | |
| Linkit: | ONIX_20220715_9781501719943_821 |
| Tagit: |
Ei tageja, Lisää ensimmäinen tagi!
|
| _version_ | 1869522524866347008 |
|---|---|
| author | Greenwood, Davydd |
| author_browse | Greenwood, Davydd |
| author_facet | Greenwood, Davydd |
| author_sort | Greenwood, Davydd |
| collection | Directory of Open Access Books |
| description | 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. |
| format | Online |
| id | doab-20.500.12854ir-89074 |
| institution | Directory of Open Access Books |
| language | eng |
| publishDate | 2022 |
| publishDateRange | 2022 |
| publishDateSort | 2022 |
| publisher | Cornell University Press |
| publisherStr | Cornell University Press |
| record_format | ojs |
| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-890742024-04-05T12:34:48Z The Taming of Evolution Greenwood, Davydd Evolution thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences::PSA Life sciences: general issues::PSAJ Evolution 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. 2022-07-15T15:20:33Z 2022-07-15T15:20:33Z 2018 book ONIX_20220715_9781501719943_821 9781501719943 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/89074 eng image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://muse.jhu.edu/book/57420 Cornell University Press 10.1353/book.57420 10.1353/book.57420 05937e7b-c222-4680-9580-c09c5ce7a11e 9781501719943 228 open access |
| spellingShingle | Evolution thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences::PSA Life sciences: general issues::PSAJ Evolution Greenwood, Davydd The Taming of Evolution |
| title | The Taming of Evolution |
| title_full | The Taming of Evolution |
| title_fullStr | The Taming of Evolution |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Taming of Evolution |
| title_short | The Taming of Evolution |
| title_sort | taming of evolution |
| topic | Evolution thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences::PSA Life sciences: general issues::PSAJ Evolution |
| topic_facet | Evolution thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences::PSA Life sciences: general issues::PSAJ Evolution |
| url | ONIX_20220715_9781501719943_821 |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT greenwooddavydd thetamingofevolution AT greenwooddavydd tamingofevolution |