LEADER 03134oam 22005774a 450 001 9910272349903321 005 20220729121921.0 010 $a9780801419882 010 $a1-5017-1993-9 024 7 $a10.7591/9781501719936 035 $a(CKB)4340000000258211 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5317517 035 $a(OCoLC)1031872374 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse66939 035 $a(DE-B1597)496470 035 $a(OCoLC)1028949960 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501719936 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000258211 100 $a19840530d1984 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Taming of Evolution$eThe Persistence of Nonevolutionary Views in the Study of Humans /$fby Davydd J. Greenwood 210 1$aIthaca :$cCornell University Press,$d1984. 210 4$dİ1984. 215 $a1 online resource (225 pages) $cillustrations 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-8014-1743-0 311 $a1-5017-1994-7 311 $a9781501719882 320 $aBibliography: p. 211-220. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tFigures --$tPreface --$tINTRODUCTION: The Darwinian Revolution? --$tI Major Western Views of Nature --$tII Simple Continuities --$tIII Complex Continuities --$tCONCLUSION: The Unmet Challenges of Evolutionary Biology --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aThe 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. 606 $aPhysical anthropology$xPhilosophy 606 $aSociobiology 606 $aNature and nurture 606 $aHuman evolution 615 0$aPhysical anthropology$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aSociobiology. 615 0$aNature and nurture. 615 0$aHuman evolution. 676 $a573 700 $aGreenwood$b Davydd J$0881643 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910272349903321 996 $aThe Taming of Evolution$92432096 997 $aUNINA