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Not In Our Genes

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Three eminent scientists analyze the scientific, social, and political roots of biological determinism.
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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 biological, genetic inheritances.

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Price: $19.00
Pages: 346
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Imprint: Haymarket Books
Publication Date: 28 March 2017
Trim Size: 8.38 X 5.25 in
ISBN: 9781608467273
Format: Paperback
BISACs:

SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biological Diversity, Biodiversity / Ecosystems, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Developmental Biology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, SCIENCE / Environmental Science ( see also Chemistry / Environmental), Developmental biology, Political science and theory, Environmental science, engineering and technology
Richard Lewontin was an American evolutionary biologist, geneticist, academic and social commentator. Lewontin was a leader in developing the mathematical basis of population genetics and evolutionary theory, he pioneered the application of techniques from molecular biology, to questions of genetic variation.
Steven Rose is emeritus Professor of Biology and Neurobiology at the Open University and Gresham College, London.
  • New Preface

  • Chapter One: The New Right and the Old Determinism

  • Chapter Two: The Politics of Biological Determinism

  • Chapter Three: Bourgeois Ideology and the Origin of Determinism

  • Chapter Four: The Legitimation of Inequality

  • Chapter Five: IQ: The Rank Ordering of the World

  • Chapter Six: The Determined Patriarchy

  • Chapter Seven: Adjusting Society by Adjusting the Mind

  • Chapter Eight: Schizophrenia: The Clash of Determinisms

  • Chapter Nine: Sociobiology: The Total Synthesis

  • Chapter Ten: New Biology versus Old Ideology