Product Description: Dieses allgemein verständliche Buch eines weltbekannten Evolutionsbiologen gibt einen brilliant geschriebenen Überblick über die Auswirkungen der Evolutionsbiologie und Genforschung auf die menschliche Gesellschaft. Ausführlich analysiert und kommentiert der Autor insbesondere weit verbreitete falsche Vorstellungen, die oft das Verständnis von Biologie und Evolution behindern...read more

Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: ¿Está determinada nuestra naturaleza --como individuos, como especie-- por nuestra evolución y codificada en nuestros genes? Si analizamos las secuencias de proteínas de nuestro ADN, ¿podremos curar cualquier aflicción fisiológica y psicológica e incluso resolver los problemas sociales más importantes? Hoy en día, los biólogos --en especial los genetistas-- proponen respuestas a preguntas que ya fueron formuladas por la filosofía, la religión o las ciencias sociales...read more

Explores the themes, controversies, and debates in biology over the last quarter century and warns against reducing evolution to a sequence of events predetermined by genetic programming. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: Are our personalities and capabilities predetermined by our genes? Human Diversity answers that question with a resounding "No". Using tools of population genetics, Richard Lewontin makes the case that biological differences are only a small part of what makes individuals unique-anyone, regardless of race, class or sex, has the potential to develop virtually any identity within the spectrum of humanity...read more

Product Description: An important contribution to the nature-nurture debate, this book discusses the methods that are used to measure the social and genetic aspects of behavior and the results of behavioral experimentation. Beginning with an overview of the history and present state of the literature on inequality, its biological and social origins, and the nature of intelligence testing, the authors also discuss the theory and measurement of genetics, social structure, and IQ scores, and consider possibilities for improvement of scholastic achievement and access to universities...read more