aIn this major collection of essays, Lewontin and Levins range from
the Human Genome Project and evolutionary psychology to Cuban
agriculture. Throughout, their work is illuminated by an insistence
on a dialectical understanding of biology from the molecular to the
socio-ecological. In rejecting reductionist understandings, they
offer important insights into how biology--and science in
general--could be reconceptualized in the service of human
liberation.a
--Steven Rose, emeritus professor of biology, Open University,
United Kingdom
How do we understand the world? While some look to the heavens
for intelligent design, others argue that it is determined by
information encoded in DNA. Science serves as an important activity
for uncovering the processes and operations of nature, but it is
also immersed in a social context where ideology influences the
questions we ask and how we approach the material world. Biology
Under the Influence: Dialectical Essays on the Coevolution of
Nature and Society breaks from the confirms of determinism,
offering a dialectical analysis for comprehending a dynamic social
and natural world.
In Biology Under the Influence, Richard Lewontin and Richard
Levins provide a devastating critique of genetic determinism and
reductionism within science while exploring a broad range of issues
including the nature of science, biology, evolution, the
environment, pubic health, and dialectics, They dismantle the
ideology that attempts to naturalize social inequalities, unveil
the alienation of science and nature, and illustrate how a
dialectical position serves as a basis for grappling with
historical developments and a world characterized by change.
Biology Underthe Influence brings together the illuminating essays
of two prominent scientists who work to demystify and empower the
public's understanding of science and nature.
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