Killer apes, naked apes, & just plain nasty people : the misuse and abuse of science in politics / R...
Killer apes, naked apes, & just plain nasty people : the misuse and abuse of science in politics / R...
Killer apes, naked apes, & just plain nasty people : the misuse and abuse of science in politics / Richard J. Perry.
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Baltimore, Maryland Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015.
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G 2016/1797
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xiii, 212 pages ; 23 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
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Introduction. Where are we going with this? There's a history here -- What's in a word.
1. Don't get me started. Humans and "Nature" -- It wasn't always about biology -- But maybe they really are different! -- It's all uphill from here -- Romantic supremacy -- Philosophical biology -- Biological stories. -- 2, Eugenics: Bad people, good people, better people. The right sorts of peopl...
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Baltimore, Maryland Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015.
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Maryland
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2015.
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In Killer Apes, Naked Apes, and Just Plain Nasty People, anthropologist Richard J. Perry delivers a scathing critique of determinism. Exploring the historical context and enduring popularity of the movement over the past century and a half, he debunks the facile and the reductionist thinking of so many popularizers of biological determinism while c...
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Killer apes, naked apes, & just plain nasty people : the misuse and abuse of science in politics / Richard J. Perry.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2016/1797
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74VKVpQxOyRZ
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1421417510
9781421417516
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304.5
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991023988314302626
