Alas Poor Darwin (Record no. 68630)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780099283195
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Edition number 23
Classification number 304.5 ROS
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Personal name Rose, Hilary
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Personal name Rose, Steven
245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Alas Poor Darwin
Remainder of title : Arguments Against Evolutionary Psychology
Statement of responsibility, etc Edited by Hilary Rose and Steven Rose
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement Paperback Edition
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc London
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Vintage
Date of publication, distribution, etc 2001
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 384 p.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc In recent years, the claims of genetics and evolutionary psychology to explain and indeed legislate on the human condition have been loudly trumpeted in a host of popular books. Genes are said to account for almost every aspect of our lives. Evolution is supposed to explain alleged human universals, from male philandering and female coyness to children's dislike of spinach. There are even claimed to be genes that account for differences between people -- from sexual orientation to drug addiction, aggression, religiosity, and job satisfaction. It appears that Darwin, at least in the hands of his popularizers, has replaced Marx and Freud as the great interpreter of human existence.<br/><br/>Biologists, social scientists, and philosophers have begun to rebel against this undisciplined approach to 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 groundbreaking book, Hilary Rose and Steven Rose have gathered the leading and outspoken critics of this fashionable ideology in a shared and uniquely cross-disciplinary project. Contributors range from biologists Stephen Jay Gould, Gabriel Dover, Patrick Bateson, and Anne Fausto-Sterling; to anthropologists and sociologists Dorothy Nelkin, Tim Ingold, Tom Shakespeare, and Ted Benton; to philosopher Mary Midgley and cultural critics Barbara Herrnstein Smith and Charles Jencks.<br/><br/>The result of this joint work, Alas Poor Darwin , is a sharply engaged, accessible, and highly entertaining critique of evolutionary psychology's tenets. What emerges is a new perspective that challenges the reductionism of evolutionary psychology and offers a richer understanding of the biosocial nature of the human condition.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Human Evolution
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Evolutionary Psychology
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Personal name Rose, Steven [Editor]
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Koha item type Prof. Romila Thapar's Collection
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Withdrawn status Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Damaged status Not for loan Home library Current library Date acquired Total Checkouts Full call number Barcode Date last seen Price effective from Koha item type Public note
    Dewey Decimal Classification   Not For Loan SNU LIBRARY SNU LIBRARY 03/06/2026   304.5 ROS G7925 03/06/2026 03/06/2026 Prof. Romila Thapar's Collection Prof. Romila Thapar's Collection
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