1st Edition
The Social Meaning of Modern Biology From Social Darwinism to Sociobiology
By Howard Kaye
Copyright 1997
218 Pages
by
Routledge
220 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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The Social Meaning of Modern Biology analyzes the cultural significance of recurring attempts since the time of Darwin to extract social and moral guidance from the teachings of modern biology. Such efforts are often dismissed as ideological defenses of the social status quo, of the sort wrongly associated with nineteenth-century social Darwinism. Howard Kaye argues they are more properly... Read more
Introduction; I: Social Darwinism and the Failure of the Darwinian Revolution; 2: From Metaphysics to Molecular Biology; 3: From Molecular Biology to Social Theory; 4: Sociobiology: The Natural Theology of E. O. Wilson; 5: The Popularization of Human Sociobiology; Conclusion; Epilogue
Biography
Howard Kaye
