Biology under the influence : dialectical essays on ecology, agriculture, and health /

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Author / Creator:Lewontin, Richard C., 1929- author.
Imprint:New York : Monthly Review Press, ©2007.
Description:1 online resource (400 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11168574
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Other authors / contributors:Levins, Richard, author.
ISBN:9781583673935
1583673938
9781583671573
1583671579
9781583671580
1583671587
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-390) and index.
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Summary:How do we understand the world? While some look to the heavens for intelligent design, others argue that it is determined by information encoded in DNA. Science serves as an important activity for uncovering the processes and operations of nature, but it is also immersed in a social context where ideology influences the questions we ask and how we approach the material world. Biology Under the Influence: Dialectical Essays on the Coevolution of Nature and Society breaks from the confirms of determinism, offering a dialectical analysis for comprehending a dynamic social and natural world. In Bi.
Other form:Print version: Lewontin, Richard C., 1929- Biology under the influence. New York : Monthly Review Press, ©2007 9781583671573