Biology Under the Influence: Dialectical Essays on Ecology, Agriculture, and Health - Softcover

Lewontin, Richard; Levins, Richard

 
9781583671573: Biology Under the Influence: Dialectical Essays on Ecology, Agriculture, and Health
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1583671579 ISBN 13: 9781583671573
Verlag: Monthly Review Press, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

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 genetic determinism and reductionism within science while exploring a broad range of issues including the nature of science, biology, evolution, the environment, pubic health, and dialectics, They dismantle the ideology that attempts to naturalize social inequalities, unveil the alienation of science and nature, and illustrate how a dialectical position serves as a basis for grappling with historical developments and a world characterized by change. Biology Under the Influence brings together the illuminating essays of two prominent scientists who work to demystify and empower the public's understanding of science and nature.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Richard Lewontin is Alexander Agassiz Research Professor at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University. He is the author of The Triple Helix: Gene, Organism, and Environment (2000), It Ain't Necessarily So: The Dream of the Human Genome and Other Illusions (2000), Biology as Ideology: The Doctrine of DNA (1992), Human Diversity (1982), and (with Richard Levins) The Dialectical Biologist (1985).

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Verlag
Monthly Review Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1583671579
ISBN 13 
9781583671573
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
402
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