beyond nature & nurture
Edición de la obra Complexities
| Autor | Susan McKinnon, Sydel Silverman |
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| Editorial | University of Chicago Press |
| Fecha de publicación | 2005 |
| Lugar | Chicago |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 330 |
| ISBN-13 | 9780226500249, 9780226500232 |
| ISBN-10 | 0226500241, 0226500233 |
| OCLC | 58050736 |
| LCCN | 2004020978 |
| Número de Cutter |
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M478c |
"Recent Years Have Seen a growing impetus to explain social life almost exclusively in biological and mechanistic terms, and to dismiss cultural meaning and difference. Daily we read assertions that everything from disease to morality - not to mention the presumed characteristics of race, gender, and sexuality - can be explained by reference primarily to genetics and our evolutionary past." "Complexities mobilizes experts from several fields of anthropology - cultural, archaeological, linguistic, and biological - to offer a compelling challenge to the resurgence of reductive theories of human biological and social life. This book presents evidence to contest such theories and to provide a multifaceted account of the complexity and variability of the human condition. Charting a course that moves beyond any simple opposition between nature and nurture, Complexities argues that a nonreductive perspective has important implications for how we understand and foster human potential. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET