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The Triple Helix: Gene, Organism, and Environment
ISBN: 9780674006775 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. One of our most brilliant evolutionary biologists, Richard Lewontin has also been a leading critic of those--scientists and non-scientists alike--who would misuse the science to which he has contributed so much. In The Triple Helix, Lewontin the scientist and Lewontin the critic come together to provide a concise, accessible account of what his work has taught him about biology and about its relevance to human affairs. In the process, he exposes some of the common and troubling misconceptions that misdirect and stall our understanding of biology and evolution. The central...
One of our most brilliant evolutionary biologists, Richard Lewontin has also been a leading critic of those--scientists and non-scientists alik...
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147,15 zł |
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Biology Under the Influence: Dialectical Essays on Ecology, Agriculture, and Health
ISBN: 9781583671573 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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... 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... |
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182,36 zł |
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Biology as Ideology: The Doctrine of DNA
ISBN: 9780060975197 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Following in the fashion of Stephen Jay Gould and Peter Medawar, one of the world's leading scientists examines how -pure science- is in fact shaped and guided by social and political needs and assumptions.
Following in the fashion of Stephen Jay Gould and Peter Medawar, one of the world's leading scientists examines how -pure science- is in fact shaped a...
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69,34 zł |
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Biology Under the Influence: Dialectical Essays on Ecology, Agriculture, and Health
ISBN: 9781583671580 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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... 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... |
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546,63 zł |
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The Dialectical Biologist
ISBN: 9780674202832 / Angielski / Miękka / 1987 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Scientists act within a social context and from a philosophical perspective that is inherently political. Whether they realize it or not, scientists always choose sides. The Dialectical Biologist explores this political nature of scientific inquiry, advancing its argument within the framework of Marxist dialectic. These essays stress the concepts of continual change and co-determination between organism and environment, part and whole, structure and process, science and politics. Throughout, this book questions our accepted definitions and biases, showing the self-reflective nature of...
Scientists act within a social context and from a philosophical perspective that is inherently political. Whether they realize it or not, scientists a...
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190,83 zł |
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The Ontogeny of Information: Developmental Systems and Evolution
ISBN: 9780822324317 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The Ontogeny of Information is a critical intervention into the ongoing and perpetually troubling nature-nurture debates surrounding human development. Originally published in 1985, this was a foundational text in what is now the substantial field of developmental systems theory. In this revised edition Susan Oyama argues compellingly that nature and nurture are not alternative influences on human development but, rather, developmental products and the developmental processes that produce them.
Information, says Oyama, is thought to reside in molecules, cells, tissues, and the... The Ontogeny of Information is a critical intervention into the ongoing and perpetually troubling nature-nurture debates surrounding human deve...
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440,90 zł |
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A Reader's Guide to Marx's Capital
ISBN: 9781608467280 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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86,51 zł |
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Not in Our Genes: Biology, Ideology, and Human Nature
ISBN: 9781608467273 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Informative, entertaining, lucid, forceful, frequently witty . . . never dull . . . should be read and remembered for a long time.---New York Times Book Review -The authors argue persuasively that biological explanations for why we act as we do are based on faulty (in some cases, fabricated) data and wild speculation. . . . It is debunking at its best.---Psychology Today -An important and timely book---Stephen Jay Gould Not in our Genes systematically exposes and dismantles the claims that inequalities--class, race, gender--are the products of... Informative, entertaining, lucid, forceful, frequently witty . . . never dull . . . should be read and remembered for a long time.---New York Ti... |
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82,39 zł |
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