Research Catalog

Title

Missing the revolution : Darwinism for social scientists / edited by Jerome H. Barkow.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

Barkow, Jerome H.

Description

vii, 302 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

"The naturalizing perspective of Darwinian thought has become one of the major intellectual currents of our time, pervading contemporary understandings of human nature and society. Unfortunately, many social scientists in sociology, psychology, and sociocultural anthropology have failed to engage with it. Barkow asks his fellow social scientists to put aside their all-too-common preconceptions and stereotypes of the "biological" and to consider a powerful argument that is far different from that of those who once invoked a vocabulary of genes and Darwin as a justification for genocide. He argues that the theoretical perspective that has been so successful when applied to the behavior of every other animal speicies can be applied just as successfully to our own, and that the real debate is about how to apply it."--Jacket.

Subjects

• Evolution (biologi) > sociala aspekter
• Evolutionspsykologi
• Evolution
• Sozialwissenschaften
• Psychologie
• Evolutionary psychology
• Evolution (Biology)
• Psychology
• psychology
• evolution
• Biological Evolution

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Gender -- Controversies -- Human and nonhuman primates -- Sociology and criminology.

ISBN

• 0195130022
• 9780195130027

LCCN

• 2004028949
• 9780195130027

OCLC

• ocm57319425
• 57319425
• SCSB-1378332

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library