Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record 3 of 4
Record:   Prev Next
Resources
More Information
Bestseller
BestsellerE-book
Author Greenwood, Davydd J.

Title The taming of evolution : the persistence of nonevolutionary views in the study of humans / by Davydd J. Greenwood.

Publication Info. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1984.

Item Status

Description 1 online resource (225 pages) : illustrations
data file
Physical Medium monochrome
Series Book collections on Project MUSE.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-220) and index.
Contents Introduction : the Darwinian revolution? -- I. Major western views of nature -- 1. Humoral/environmental theories and the chain of being -- 2. Evolving natural categories : Darwin's unique legacy -- II. Simple continuities -- 3. Humoral politics : races, constitutional types, and ethnic and national character -- III. Complex continuities -- 4. Purity of blood and social hierarchy -- 5. An enlightenment humoralist : Don Diego de Torres Villarroel -- 6. Human sociobiology -- 7. Cultural materialism -- Conclusion : the unmet challenges of evolutionary biology.
Access Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
Local Note JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access
Subject Human evolution.
Human evolution.
Nature and nurture.
Nature and nurture.
Sociobiology.
Sociobiology.
Physical anthropology -- Philosophy.
Physical anthropology -- Philosophy.
Physical anthropology.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Greenwood, Davydd J. Taming of evolution. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1984 (DLC) 84045147 (OCoLC)10850381
ISBN 9781501719936 (electronic book)
1501719939 (electronic book)
0801417430 (alkaline paper)
9780801417436 (alkaline paper)
9780801419882
9781501719943
9781501719882