EAN: 9781433100185

BIOLOGY AFTER THE SOCIOBIOLOGY DEBATE - CARMEN ...

This book analyzes the sociobiology debate and details a number of contested issues that have
emerged. These issues focus on the interpretations and emphases that both sides have placed on
the role of adaptation in evolution  the importance of evolution at the level of the gene
versus at the level of organisms and populations  reductionism as a research method  simple
Mendelianism versus more complex understandings of the relationship between genotype and
phenotype  and ultimately  the nature of science itself. The book includes textual analyses of
a selection of university-level introductory biology textbooks written between 1990 and 2010 
examining the ways these texts - with their photos  inserts  and various rhetorical devices -
cover sociobiology specifically  and animal behavior in general  evolutionary theory  genetic
theory  and the nature of science. Biology After the Sociobiology Debate shows how  over the
last two decades  sociobiology and the ensuing debates have influenced biological theory about
the natures of science and the behavior of organisms  and how that influence is expressed in
introductory textbooks. This book is important not just as a sociology of knowledge study  but
also because of the ways in which continued biodeterminist discourses may influence debates and
policy that are emerging around a new liberal or consumer-based eugenics movement.

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