{"product_id":"the-taming-of-evolution-davydd-greenwood-9781501719882","title":"The Taming of Evolution: The Persistence of Nonevolutionary Views in the Study of Humans","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe theory of evolution has clearly altered our views of the biological world, but in the study of human beings, evolutionary and preevolutionary views continue to coexist in a state of perpetual tension.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Taming of Evolution\u003c\/i\u003e addresses the questions of how and why this is so. Davydd Greenwood offers a sustained critique of the nature\/nurture debate, revealing the complexity of the relationship between science and ideology. He maintains that popular contemporary theories, most notably E. O. Wilson's human sociobiology and Marvin Harris's cultural materialism, represent pre-Darwinian notions overlaid by elaborate evolutionary terminology. Greenwood first details the humoral-environmental and Great Chain of Being theories that dominated Western thinking before Darwin. He systematically compares these ideas with those later influenced by Darwin's theories, illuminating the surprising continuities between them. Greenwood suggests that it would be neither difficult nor socially dangerous to develop a genuinely evolutionary understanding of human beings, so long as we realized that we could not derive political and moral standards from the study of biological processes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Davydd Greenwood\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501719882\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501719882\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/15\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 228\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.52d","brand":"Davydd Greenwood","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48113598791935,"sku":"9781501719882","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_814795bd-f62b-4d2c-96a2-83bb82452c54.jpg?v=1769616065","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-taming-of-evolution-davydd-greenwood-9781501719882","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}