"Love of shopping" is not a gene : problems with Darwinian psychology / Anne Innis Dagg.
"In this provocative book, Anne Innis Dagg, an eminent and outspoken critic of Darwinian psychology (alias evolutionary psychology, alias sociobiology), presents an overview of the discipline and its popularity among both professionals and lay people, then examines concepts of social behavior - based on "genes vs. culture" - including topics of race, intelligence, homosexuality and aggression in the form of rape, infanticide, gang violence, war and general criminology." "Focusing on the problems present in much Darwinian psychological research - flawed data, faulty analyses, political motives - this controversial book offers a comprehensive critique of the topics that comprise the most popular scientific theory of the turn of the century: Evolutionary Psychology. In the end, a new perspective emerges which acknowledges the complexity of life by placing at its center the living organism, in its environment, rather than the gene."--BOOK JACKET.
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- ISBN: 1551642565 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 1551642573 (bound)
- Physical Description: xii, 210 p. ; 23 cm.
- Publisher: Montreal : Black Rose Books, 2004.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 1. A strange tale of non-Darwinian lions -- 2. Theory driving the data - infanticide -- 3. Stereotypes - aggression -- 4. How would inheritance work? - aggression -- 5. Groups as such don't have genes - gang violence and war -- 6. A never-ending stereotype - male dominance -- 7. Silly assumptions - dominant men and other "universals" -- 8. Blaming the victim - criminality -- 9. False references and other academic booboos - rape -- 10. How evolution really works - sperm competition in animals -- 11. Irrelevant nonsense - sperm competition in women -- 12. Denying reality - homosexual behavior in animals -- 13. Genetics versus culture? - human homosexuality -- 14. Bypassing academic standards - "race" -- 15. Politics masquerading as science - "race" and IQ -- 16. Hijacking a valid theory - fluctuating asymmetry -- 17. Evolution by crafty, curvy women and their body parts? -- 18. Conclusions. |
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Subject: | Evolutionary psychology. Human behavior. |
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Lansdowne Library | BF 698.95 D33 2005 (Text) | 26040002838890 | Main Collection | Volume hold | Available | - |