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Killer Apes, Naked Apes, and Just Plain Nasty People : The Misuse and Abuse of Science in Political Discourse /
In Killer Apes, Naked Apes, and Just Plain Nasty People, anthropologist Richard J. Perry delivers a scathing critique of determinism. Exploring the historical context and enduring popularity of the movement over the past century and a half, he debunks the facile and the reductionist thinking of so m...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
[2015]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction. Where are we going with this? There's a history here
- What's in a word.
- Introduction. Where Are We Going With This? There's a history here ; What's in a word?
- Chapter 1. Don't Get Me Started. Humans and "nature" ; It wasn't always about biology ; But maybe they really are different! ; It's all uphill from here ; Romantic supremacy ; Philosophical biology ; Biological stories
- Chapter 2. Eugenics : Bad People, Good People, Better People. The right sorts of people ; What's to be done? ; Parasites and pests ; Manipulating biology ; The gift of IQ ; Boas and "fixed traits" ; Out with eugenics, for now; but we still have IQ!
- Chapter 3. Killer Apes, Naked Apes, and Just Plain Nasty People. Enter the killer ape ... ; ... Followed by the naked ape ... ; ... Followed by nasty people ; It gets worse ; A serious flaw in the argument ; I know, but it still seems real ; Back to eugenics
- Chapter 4. Mind games. Social programs? : Not so fast ; Seeing double ; Wait
- what were those scores again? ; You say heritability, I say inheritance : let's call the whole thing off ; Let's get that social ranking straight ; Nothing if not persistent ; Twins, again! ; Hot air from Canada and from across the Pond ; Everyone needs a friend
- Chapter 5. Sociobiology : a New Science of the Same Old Thing. "Go to the ant, thou sluggard. Consider her ways and be wise" ; Edward, have you met Herbert? ; Quiet ... I think the genes are up to something ; What's good for the goose ; Wait ... are we still doing science? ; Pull up a chair; it's story time ; The generic "primitive" ; Americans and Brits : the generic humans ; A genetic guide to behavior
- Chapter 6. And Yet Another New Science of the Same Old Thing. It blinded them with science ; It takes a village ; Making the exotic familiar, and the familiar genetic ; Waltz of the pseudohypotheses ; What's with the big brain, anyway? ; What, indeed?
- Chapter 7. That's Just About Enough of That. "When wild in the woods the noble savage ran" ; Steven
- you look as if you've seen a ghost ; Calm down; it's only an abstraction ; Are you still here? ; What's the big deal? ; What's the score so far? ; Some things we do know about the Pleistocene ; Going off script ; Battle of the sexes? ; A word about ethnography
- Chapter 8. It's Not That Simple. So what's the alternative? ; Ah, tradition ; Somehow it all fits
- Chapter 9. What's the Agenda? Solutions that cause problems ; The beat goes on ; Reflections on the mystique of science.