TY  - BOOK
AU  - Greenwood,Davydd J.
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - The Taming of Evolution : : The Persistence of Nonevolutionary Views in the Study of Humans / 
SN  - 9781501719943
PY  - 1984///
CY  - Ithaca
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Sociobiologie
KW  - gtt
KW  - Evolutietheorie
KW  - Sociobiology
KW  - fast
KW  - Physical anthropology
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Nature and nurture
KW  - Human evolution
KW  - Evolution (Biology)
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Cultural
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - evolution
KW  - aat
KW  - Évolution (Biologie)
KW  - Anthropologie physique
KW  - Philosophie
KW  - Heredite et milieu
KW  - Homme
KW  - Évolution
KW  - Biological Evolution
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Introduction : the Darwinian revolution? -- I. Major western views of nature -- 1. Humoral/environmental theories and the chain of being -- 2. Evolving natural categories : Darwin's unique legacy -- II. Simple continuities -- 3. Humoral politics : races, constitutional types, and ethnic and national character -- III. Complex continuities -- 4. Purity of blood and social hierarchy -- 5. An enlightenment humoralist : Don Diego de Torres Villarroel -- 6. Human sociobiology -- 7. Cultural materialism -- Conclusion : the unmet challenges of evolutionary biology; Open Access
N2  - The 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
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/57420/
ER  -