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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.… (mais)
I needed these authors at that stage of my intellectual life when I was caught in the toils of sociobiology and evolutionary psychology – dismal years of spiritual depression or oppression. But I didn’t have Goodreads then, to locate alternate ideas, and I’m not of scientific background, to find my way around. So I bought this secondhand a decade or two too late.
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.
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings. . . .
Julius Caesar I, ii
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
The start of the decade of the 1980s was symbolized, in Britain and the United States, by the coming to power of new conservative governments; and the conservatism of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan marks in many ways a decisive break in the political consensus of liberal conservatism that has characterized governments in both countries for the previous twenty years or more.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
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.
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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.