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Biology Under the Influence: Dialectical Essays on Ecology, Agriculture, and Health Paperback - 2007
by Richard Lewontin; Richard Levins
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- Title Biology Under the Influence: Dialectical Essays on Ecology, Agriculture, and Health
- Author Richard Lewontin; Richard Levins
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition (U
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Monthly Review Press, NY
- Date 2007-11-01
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9781583671573 / 1583671579
- Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
- Dimensions 6 x 8.9 x 1.1 in (15.24 x 22.61 x 2.79 cm)
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- Topical: Ecology
- Library of Congress subjects Biology - Philosophy, Biology - Social aspects
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007033070
- Dewey Decimal Code 570.1
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- Scitech Book News, 06/01/2008, Page 53
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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… Read More
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