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Pages: 112
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R. C. Lewontin is a prominent scientist -- a geneticist who teaches at Harvard -- yet he believes that we have placed science on a pedestal, treating it as an o
Biology and Ideology from Descartes to Dawkins
Language: en
Pages: 461
Authors: Denis R. Alexander
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-05-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Over the course of human history, the sciences, and biology in particular, have often been manipulated to cause immense human suffering. For example, biology ha
Not in Our Genes
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Richard Lewontin
Categories: Behavior genetics
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Three eminent scientists analyze the scientific, social, and political roots of biological determinism.
The Doctrine of DNA
Language: en
Pages: 128
Authors: Richard C. Lewontin
Categories: Biology
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This book, the latest in the continuing debate between the genetic reductionists (such as Richard Dawkins, John Maynard Smith and E.O. Wilson) and those who arg
The Dialectical Biologist
Language: en
Pages: 322
Authors: Richard Levins
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1987-03-15 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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Scientists act within a social context and from a philosophical perspective that is inherently political. Whether they realize it or not, scientists always choo