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by Susan McKinnon


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Evolutionary psychology claims to be the authoritative science of human nature. Its chief architects, including Stephen Pinker and David Buss, have managed to reach well beyond the ivory tower to win large audiences and influence public discourse. But do the answers that evolutionary psychologists provide about language, sex, and social relations add up? Susan McKinnon thinks not.
Far from being an account of evolution and social relations that has historical and cross-cultural validity, evolutionary psychology is a stunning example of a science that twists evolutionary genetics into a myth of human origins. As McKinnon shows, that myth is shaped by neo-liberal economic values and relies on ethnocentric understandings of sex, gender, kinship, and social relations. She also explores the implications for public policy of the moral tales that are told by evolutionary psychologists in the guise of scientific inquiry.
Drawing widely from the anthropological record, Neo-liberal Genetics offers a sustained and accessible critique of the myths of human nature fabricated by evolutionary psychologists.

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  • Title Neo-Liberal Genetics: The Myths and Moral Tales of Evolutionary Psychology
  • Author Susan McKinnon
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: repri
  • Pages 184
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Prickly Paradigm Press, Chicago, IL
  • Date February 1, 2006
  • Features Bibliography
  • ISBN 9780976147527 / 0976147521
  • Weight 0.47 lbs (0.21 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.02 x 6.46 x 0.41 in (17.83 x 16.41 x 1.04 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Psychology, Genetic psychology
  • Dewey Decimal Code 155.7

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Susan McKinnon is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Virginia. She is the author of From a Shattered Sun: Hierarchy, Gender, and Alliance in the Tanimbar Islands and coeditor of Complexities: Beyond Nature and Nurture, published by the University of Chicago Press.
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