书目名称 | Darwinian Archaeologies | 编辑 | Herbert Donald Graham Maschner | 视频video | | 丛书名称 | Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | Just over 20 years ago the publication of two books indicated the reemergence of Darwinian ideas on the public stage. E. O. Wilson‘s Sociobiology: The New Synthesis and Richard Dawkins‘ The Selfish Gene, spelt out and developed the implications of ideas that had been quietly revolutionizing biology for some time. Most controversial of all, needless to say, was the suggestion that such ideas had implications for human behavior in general and social behavior in particular. Nowhere was the outcry greater than in the field of anthropology, for anthropologists saw themselves as the witnesses and defenders of human di versity and plasticity in the face of what they regarded as a biological determin ism supporting a right-wing racist and sexist political agenda. Indeed, how could a discipline inheriting the social and cultural determinisms of Boas, Whorf, and Durkheim do anything else? Life for those who ventured to chal lenge this orthodoxy was not always easy. In the mid-l990s such views are still widely held and these two strands of anthropology have tended to go their own way, happily not talking to one another. Nevertheless, in the intervening years Darwinian ideas have gradually | 出版日期 | Book 1996 | 关键词 | darwinian archaeologies; darwinian theory; evolution; evolution of mental adaptations; evolutionary psyc | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9945-3 | isbn_softcover | 978-1-4757-9947-7 | isbn_ebook | 978-1-4757-9945-3Series ISSN 1568-2722 Series E-ISSN 2730-6984 | issn_series | 1568-2722 | copyright | Springer Science+Business Media New York 1996 |
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