The Use and Abuse of Biology: An Anthropological Critique of SociobiologyA criticism of sociobiology by one of the world's foremost anthropologists |
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Contents
Critique of the Vulgar Sociobiology | 3 |
Critique of the Scientific Sociobiology Kin Selection | 17 |
Ideological Transformations of Natural Selection | 71 |
Folk Dialectics of Nature and Culture | 93 |
Notes | 109 |
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| Title | The Use and Abuse of Biology: An Anthropological Critique of Sociobiology |
| Author | Marshall David Sahlins |
| Contributor | University of Michigan. Press |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | University of Michigan Press, 1976 |
| ISBN | 0472766007, 9780472766000 |
| Length | 120 pages |
| Subjects | › › Social Science / Anthropology / General |
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