03134oam 22005774a 450 991027234990332120220729121921.097808014198821-5017-1993-910.7591/9781501719936(CKB)4340000000258211(MiAaPQ)EBC5317517(OCoLC)1031872374(MdBmJHUP)muse66939(DE-B1597)496470(OCoLC)1028949960(DE-B1597)9781501719936(EXLCZ)99434000000025821119840530d1984 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierThe Taming of EvolutionThe Persistence of Nonevolutionary Views in the Study of Humans /by Davydd J. GreenwoodIthaca :Cornell University Press,1984.©1984.1 online resource (225 pages) illustrationsIncludes index.0-8014-1743-0 1-5017-1994-7 9781501719882 Bibliography: p. 211-220.Frontmatter --Contents --Figures --Preface --INTRODUCTION: The Darwinian Revolution? --I Major Western Views of Nature --II Simple Continuities --III Complex Continuities --CONCLUSION: The Unmet Challenges of Evolutionary Biology --Notes --Bibliography --IndexThe theory of evolution has clearly altered our views of the biological world, but in the study of human beings, evolutionary and preevolutionary views continue to coexist in a state of perpetual tension. The Taming of Evolution addresses the questions of how and why this is so. Davydd Greenwood offers a sustained critique of the nature/nurture debate, revealing the complexity of the relationship between science and ideology. He maintains that popular contemporary theories, most notably E. O. Wilson's human sociobiology and Marvin Harris's cultural materialism, represent pre-Darwinian notions overlaid by elaborate evolutionary terminology. Greenwood first details the humoral-environmental and Great Chain of Being theories that dominated Western thinking before Darwin. He systematically compares these ideas with those later influenced by Darwin's theories, illuminating the surprising continuities between them. Greenwood suggests that it would be neither difficult nor socially dangerous to develop a genuinely evolutionary understanding of human beings, so long as we realized that we could not derive political and moral standards from the study of biological processes.Physical anthropologyPhilosophySociobiologyNature and nurtureHuman evolutionPhysical anthropologyPhilosophy.Sociobiology.Nature and nurture.Human evolution.573Greenwood Davydd J881643MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910272349903321The Taming of Evolution2432096UNINA