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" A Darwinian worldview : "
Brian Baxter.
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BL
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1012713
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b767083
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Baxter, Brian,1949-
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A Darwinian worldview : : sociobiology, environmental ethics and the work of Edward O. Wilson /\ Brian Baxter.
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Aldershot, England ;Burlington, VT :: Ashgate,, ©2007.
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1 online resource (199 pages)
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0754686744
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: 9780754686743
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0754656780
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9780754656784
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-193) and index.
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| Contents
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The explanatory issue -- Sociobiology -- Evolutionary psychology -- Gene-culture co-evolution -- Consilience -- The moral issue -- Darwinian naturalism, environmentalism and humanism -- Naturalism and morality -- The possibility of environmental ethics -- Evolution, meaning, suffering and death.
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Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection is considered in its application to human beings in this book. Brian Baxter examines the various sociobiological approaches to the explanation of human behaviour which view the human brain, and so the human mind, as the product of evolution, and considers the main arguments for and against this claim. In so doing he defends the approaches against some common criticisms, such as the charge that they are reductionist and dehumanising. The impli.
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Darwin, Charles,1809-1882-- Influence.
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Wilson, Edward O.
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Darwin, Charles,1809-1882.
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Wilson, Edward O.
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Wilson, Edward O.
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Environmental ethics.
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Human evolution.
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Social Darwinism.
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Sociobiology.
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Environmental ethics.
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Human evolution.
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Social Darwinism.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Essays.
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Sociobiology.
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Sozialdarwinismus
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Umweltethik
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304.5
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HM628.B39 2007eb
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