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LIFELINES
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| By: |
Steven Rose |
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Paperback |
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£15.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0099468638 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780099468639 |
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| Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
29 December, 2005 |
| Pages: |
352 |
| Description: |
In "Lifelines", biologist Steven Rose offers a powerful alternative to the ultradarwinist claims of such notable science writers as Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, and other advocates of reductionism, arguing that there need to be a specific focus on the organism in question and, in particular, on the organism's lifeline. |
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In Lifelines, neuroscientist Steven Rose offers a theory of life that insists that we as humans - along with all living creatures - create our own futures, though in circumstances not of our own choosing. Placing the organism at the centre of life, Rose directly confronts the ideology of reductionism and ultra-Darwinism, with its headline-grabbing insistence that all aspects of human life from sexual preference to infanticide, political orientation to violence, make domination to alcoholism, are in our genes and are the inevitable consequence of natural selection. Rose asserts that such claims are not merely socially naive, but fundamentally misunderstand the active and irreducible nature of living processes. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Vintage |
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