Not In Our Genes - Biology, Ideology, and Human Nature

Three eminent scientists analyze the scientific, social, and political roots of biological determinism.

List of contents

New Preface

Chapter One: The New Right and the Old Determinism

Chapter Two: The Politics of Biological Determinism

Chapter Three: Bourgeois Ideology and the Origin of Determinism

Chapter Four: The Legitimation of Inequality

Chapter Five: IQ: The Rank Ordering of the World

Chapter Six: The Determined Patriarchy

Chapter Seven: Adjusting Society by Adjusting the Mind

Chapter Eight: Schizophrenia: The Clash of Determinisms

Chapter Nine: Sociobiology: The Total Synthesis

Chapter Ten: New Biology versus Old Ideology

About the author

Richard Lewontin was an American evolutionary biologist, geneticist, academic and social commentator. Lewontin was a leader in developing the mathematical basis of population genetics and evolutionary theory, he pioneered the application of techniques from molecular biology, to questions of genetic variation.

Steven Rose is emeritus Professor of Biology and Neurobiology at the Open University and Gresham College, London.

Summary

Three eminent scientists analyze the scientific, social, and political roots of biological determinism.

Foreword

Reviews and publication notices in Truthout, In These Times, New Left Review, Historical Materialism, International Socialist Review, Jacobin, and other left-wing journals

Product details

• Authors: Leon Kamin, Leon J. Kamin, Kamin Leon J., Richard Lewontin, Lewontin Richard, Steven Rose, Rose Steven
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.03.2017
• EAN: 9781608467273
• ISBN: 978-1-60846-727-3
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Science: general issues, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biological Diversity, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Developmental Biology, Science / Environmental Science