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Loading... No está en los genes : racismo, genética e ideología (edition 2009)by Richard C. Lewontin, Steven P. R. Rose, Leon J. Kamin, Enrique Torner (Translator)
Work InformationNot in Our Genes: Biology, Ideology, and Human Nature by Richard Lewontin
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Informative, entertaining, lucid, forceful, frequently witty . . . never dull . . . should be read and remembered for a long time."--New York Times Book Review "The authors argue persuasively that biological explanations for why we act as we do are based on faulty (in some cases, fabricated) data and wild speculation. . . . It is debunking at its best."--Psychology Today "An important and timely book"--Stephen Jay Gould Not in our Genessystematically exposes and dismantles the claims that inequalities--class, race, gender--are the products of biological, genetic inheritances. No library descriptions found. |
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I find it unreadable now. It’s far too politicised, from the calm waters I am since in. Biology is, of course, ideology (their slogan and title of another book). One way to see that – which made an impression on me – is to follow how evolutionary science went quite differently in a different culture: case study: Darwin Without Malthus: The Struggle for Existence in Russian Evolutionary Thought. But it’s work on animals that gave me my alternative: Frans de Waal and others. In retrospect, for my spiritual salvation (I don't mean religious, which I've never been), I only needed to go back to Dostoyevsky, who was in a fight against an old determinism, whereas I had met a new.