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The Battlegrounds of Bio-Science - Couverture souple

Miele, Frank

 
9781403360304: The Battlegrounds of Bio-Science
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1403360308 ISBN 13 : 9781403360304
Editeur : AuthorHouse, 2003

Synopsis

The start of the new millennium has seen the dawn of Charles Darwin's dream - the synthesis of the physical, biological, and social sciences, what E.O. Wilson (who author Tom Wolfe dubbed 'Darwin II') has called 'consilience.' But to a vast portion of the American population, especially the Religious Right, not only Christian, but Muslim as well, human evolution itself is a dangerous heresy. They fear that emerging neo-Darwinian disciples such as Sociobiology and Evolutionary Psychology are heading us to a world where the 'there are no absolutes and anything goes.' Many on the Far Left, including radical deconstructionists, militant feminists, and unrepentant Marxists, the explosion of knowledge on the genetic basis of disease and behavior as leading to a newer, seemingly more acceptable Social Darwinism. They fear the rise of a dangerous from of corporate-controlled biotechnology and eugenics where 'the strong do as they will and the weak suffer what they must.' What all these very strange bedfellows share is that they are all subscribe to the dogma that a certain collection of written words (whether attributed to God, Allah, one man, or 'womyn,' must take priority over observations of the real world.The dawn of the Darwinian dream also marks the dawn of the Darwinian dilemma - has today's knowledge of genetic basis of life, disease, and intelligence, and the evolutionary origins of parental care, violence, and race hatred outstripped the ability of our evolved brains to process that information wisely. Those are among the questions I explored in my Skeptic Magazine interviews with some of today's most controversial and far thinking scholars. Under skeptical cross-examination, their opposing points of view map the dimly seen borderlands the where science, ethics, and politics will meet in the next century. The result will be a new definition of life, intelligence, and of no less than what it means to be human.Also included are my Skeptic Magazine 'Quick and Dry' Gu

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The start of the new millennium has seen the dawn of Charles Darwin's dream - the synthesis of the physical, biological, and social sciences, what E.O. Wilson (who author Tom Wolfe dubbed 'Darwin II') has called 'consilience.' But to a vast portion of the American population, especially the Religious Right, not only Christian, but Muslim as well, human evolution itself is a dangerous heresy. They fear that emerging neo-Darwinian disciples such as Sociobiology and Evolutionary Psychology are heading us to a world where the 'there are no absolutes and anything goes.' Many on the Far Left, including radical deconstructionists, militant feminists, and unrepentant Marxists, the explosion of knowledge on the genetic basis of disease and behavior as leading to a newer, seemingly more acceptable Social Darwinism. They fear the rise of a dangerous from of corporate-controlled biotechnology and eugenics where 'the strong do as they will and the weak suffer what they must.' What all these very strange bedfellows share is that they are all subscribe to the dogma that a certain collection of written words (whether attributed to God, Allah, one man, or 'womyn,' must take priority over observations of the real world.The dawn of the Darwinian dream also marks the dawn of the Darwinian dilemma - has today's knowledge of genetic basis of life, disease, and intelligence, and the evolutionary origins of parental care, violence, and race hatred outstripped the ability of our evolved brains to process that information wisely. Those are among the questions I explored in my Skeptic Magazine interviews with some of today's most controversial and far thinking scholars. Under skeptical cross-examination, their opposing points of view map the dimly seen borderlands the where science, ethics, and politics will meet in the next century. The result will be a new definition of life, intelligence, and of no less than what it means to be human.Also included are my Skeptic Magazine 'Quick and Dry' Gu

Biographie de l'auteur

SKEPTIC Magazine Senior Editor Frank Miele regularly interviews cutting-edge scholars and best-selling authors, and reviews books and articles in behavioral science, history, politics, and religion. He has been an invited speaker at the Skeptic Society's Cal Tech Lecture Series, the Foundation for the Future's Humanity 3000 Symposium, the Westermarck Society of Finland, the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Science, the Max Planck Society of Germany, and the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Vienna. He has also been interviewed on National Public Radio's Science Friday. In addition to SKEPTIC, Miele has also published in Intelligence, The Human Ethnology Bulletin, and Population and Environment (where he also serves as book review editor). His articles have appeared on the Skeptic Society (www.skeptic.com), the Human Behavior and Evolution Society (www.hbes.com), and other websites. Miele's unique writing style, drawing upon his varied life experiences, combines a technical writer's accuracy, brevity, and clarity, a musician's car for catching the rhythm, style, and personality of his iconoclastic and best-selling interviewees, and the wry wit of a stand-up comic.

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Éditeur
AuthorHouse
Date d'édition
2003
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1403360308
ISBN 13 
9781403360304
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Nombre de pages
336
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