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" Biology under the influence : "
Richard Lewontin and Richard Levins
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BL
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645597
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Lewontin, Richard C.,1929-
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Biology under the influence : : dialectical essays on ecology, agriculture, and health /\ Richard Lewontin and Richard Levins
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New York :: Monthly Review Press,, c2007
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400 p. :: ill. ;; 23 cm
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9781583671573
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: 1583671579
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: 9781583671580
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: 1583671587
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [375]-390) and index
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| Contents
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The end of natural history? -- The return of old diseases and the appearance of new ones -- False dichotomies -- Chance and necessity -- Organism and environment -- The biological and the social -- How different are natural and social science? -- Does anything new ever happen? -- Life on other worlds -- Are we programmed? -- Evolutionary psychology -- Let the numbers speak -- The politics of averages -- Schmalhausen's law -- A program for biology -- Ten propositions on science and antiscience -- Dialectics and systems theory -- Aspects of whole and parts in population biology -- Strategies of abstraction -- The butterfly ex machina -- Educating the intuition to cope with complexity -- Preparing for uncertainty -- Greypeace -- Genes, environment, and organisms -- The dream of the human genome -- Does culture evolve? -- Is capitalism a disease? The crisis in U.S. public health -- Science and progress : seven developmentalist myths in agriculture -- The maturing of capitalist agriculture : farmer as proletarian -- How Cuba is going ecological -- Living the 11th thesis
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Biology-- Philosophy
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Biology-- Social aspects
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QH331.L5355 2007
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Levins, Richard
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