Biology Under the Influence: Dialectical Essays on the Coevolution of Nature and Society Book

Dedication     7
Introduction     9
Part 1
The End of Natural History?     13
The Return of Old Diseases and the Appearance of New Ones     17
False Dichotomies     23
Chance and Necessity     27
Organism and Environment     31
The Biological and the Social     35
How Different Are Natural and Social Science?     39
Does Anything New Ever Happen?     43
Life on Other Worlds     47
Are We Programmed?     53
Evolutionary Psychology     59
Let the Numbers Speak     65
The Politics of Averages     71
Schmalhausen's Law     75
A Program for Biology     81
Part 2
Ten Propositions on Science and Antiscience     87
Dialectics and Systems Theory     101
Aspects of Whole and Parts in Population Biology     125
Strategies of Abstraction     149
The Butterfly ex Machina     167
Educating the Intuition to Cope with Complexity     183
Preparing for Uncertainty     199
Part 3
Greypeace     219
Genes, Environment, and Organisms     221
The Dream of the Human Genome     235
Does Culture Evolve?     267
Is Capitalism a Disease?: The Crisis in U.S. Public Health     297
Science and Progress: Seven Developmentalist Myths in Agriculture     321
The Maturing of Capitalist Agriculture: Farmer as Proletarian     329
How Cuba Is Going Ecological     343
Living the 11th Thesis     365
Notes     375
Index     391