Research Catalog

Title

Alas, poor Darwin : arguments against evolutionary psychology / edited by Hilary Rose and Steven Rose.

Publication

New York : Harmony Books, ©2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Rose, Hilary, 1935-
• Rose, Steven P. R. (Steven Peter Russell), 1938-

Description

vi, 346 pages; 25 cm

Summary

"The claim of genetics and evolutionary psychology to explain and indeed legislate on the human condition have been loudly trumpeted in recent years in a host of popular books." "Biologists, social scientists and philosophers have begun to rebel against this roughshod ride over their different understandings of the world, demonstrating that the claims of evolutionary psychology rest on shaky empirical evidence, flawed premises and unexamined political presuppositions. In this provocative and groundbreaking book, Hilary Rose and Steven Rose have gathered together the leading and outspoken critics of this fashionable ideology, from Britain and the United States, in a shared and perhaps uniquely cross-disciplinary project." "The result of this joint work is a critique of the most fashionable ideology of recent years. What emerges is a new perspective which challenges the reductionism of evolutionary psychology ad offers a richer understanding of the biosocial nature of the human condition."--Jacket.

Subject

• Evolutionary psychology
• Human evolution
• Psychology
• Evolution (Biology)
• Behavior genetics
• Psychology
• Biological Evolution
• Genetics, Behavioral
• psychology
• evolution
• 77.53 developmental psychology
• 42.20 genetics (biology)
• Behavior genetics
• Evolutionary psychology
• Human evolution
• Darwinisme
• Memen

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-337) and index.

Contents

Less selfish than sacred?: genes and the religious impulse in evolutionary psychology / Dorothy Nelkin -- EP, phone home / Charles Jencks -- Anti-Dawkins / Gabriel Dover -- Why memes? / Mary Midgley -- More things in heaven and earth / Stephen Jay Gould -- Colonizing the social sciences? / Hilary Rose -- Sewing up the mind: the claims of evolutionary psychology / Barbara Herrnstein Smith -- Why babies' brains are not Swiss army knives / Annette Karmiloff-Smith -- Taking the stink out of instinct / Patrick Bateson -- Beyond difference: feminism and evolutionary psychology / Anne Fausto-Sterling -- Different strokes: beyond biological determinism and social constructionism / Tom Shakespeare and Mark Erickson -- Social causes and natural relations / Ted Benton -- Evolving skills / Tim Ingold -- Escaping evolutionary psychology / Steven Rose.

ISBN

• 0609605135
• 9780609605134

LCCN

00035062

OCLC

• ocm43728984
• 43728984
• SCSB-9521755

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library