Title: The taming of evolution
Subtitle: the persistence of nonevolutionary views in the study of humans
First published: 1984
Description: TABLE OF CONTENTS: Introduction : the Darwinian revolution? -- Major western views of nature. Humoral / environmental theories and the chain of being -- Evolving natural categories : Darwin’s unique legacy -- Simple continuities. Humoral politics : races, constitutional types, and ethnic and national character -- Complex continuities. Purity of blood and social hierarchy -- An enlightenment humoralist : Don Diego de Torres Villarroel -- Human sociobiology -- Cultural materialism -- Conclusion : the unmet challenges of evolutionary biology.
Subjects: Philosophy, Physical anthropology, Nature and nurture, Sociobiology, Human evolution, Biological Evolution
LC classification: GN281 .G73 1984