Biology And The Human Sciences
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Biology And The Human Sciences
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Author : John William Sutton Pringle
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
Biology And The Human Sciences written by John William Sutton Pringle and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with Biology categories.
Human By Nature
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Author : Peter Weingart
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2013-06-17
Human By Nature written by Peter Weingart and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-17 with Psychology categories.
Representing a wide range of disciplines -- biology, sociology, anthropology, economics, human ethology, psychology, primatology, history, and philosophy of science -- the contributors to this book recently spent a complete academic year at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) discussing a plethora of new insights in reference to human cultural evolution. These scholars acted as a living experiment of "interdisciplinarity in vivo." The assumption of this experiment was that the scholars -- while working and residing at the ZiF -- would be united intellectually as well as socially, a connection that might eventually enhance future interdisciplinary communication even after the research group had dispersed. An important consensus emerged: The issue of human culture poses a challenge to the division of the world into the realms of the "natural" and the "cultural" and hence, to the disciplinary division of scientific labor. The appropriate place for the study of human culture, in this group's view, is located between biology and the social sciences. Explicitly avoiding biological and sociological reductionisms, the group adopted a pluralistic perspective -- "integrative pluralism" -- that took into account both today's highly specialized and effective (sub-)disciplinary research and the possibility of integrating the respective findings on a case-by-case basis. Each sub-group discovered its own way of interdisciplinary collaboration and submitted a contribution to the present volume reflecting one of several types of fruitful cooperation, such as a fully integrated chapter, a multidisciplinary overview, or a discussion between different approaches. A promising first step on the long road to an interdisciplinarily informed understanding of human culture, this book will be of interest to social scientists and biologists alike.
Kant And The Human Sciences
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Author : A. Cohen
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2009-10-22
Kant And The Human Sciences written by A. Cohen and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-22 with Philosophy categories.
This book provides the first sustained attempt to extract from Kant's writings on biology, anthropology and history an account of the human sciences, their underlying unity, their presuppositions as well as their methodology; that is to say, Kant's philosophical and epistemological foundation of the human sciences.
Population In The Human Sciences
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Author : Philip Kreager
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2015-03-05
Population In The Human Sciences written by Philip Kreager and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-05 with Social Science categories.
The Human Sciences address problems in nature and society that often require coordinated approaches of several scientific disciplines and scholarly research, embracing the social and biological sciences, and history. When we wish, for example, to understand how some sub-populations and not others come to be vulnerable, why a disease spreads in one part of a population and not another, or which gene variants are transmitted across generations, then a remarkable range of disciplinary perspectives need to be brought together, from the study of institutional structures, cultural boundaries, and social networks down to the micro-biology of cellular pathways, and gene expression. The need to explain and address differential impacts of pressing contemporary issues like AIDS, ageing, social and economic inequalities, and environmental change, are well-known cases in point. Population concepts, models, and evidence lie at the core of approaches to all of these problems, if only because accurate differentiation and identification of groups, their structures, constituents, and relations between sub-populations, are necessary to specify their nature and extent. The study of population thus draws both on statistical methodologies of demography and population genetics and sustained observation of the ways in which populations and sub-populations are formed, maintained, or broken up in nature, in the laboratory, and in society. In an era in which research needs to operate on multiple levels, population thinking thus provides a common ground for communication and critical thought across disciplines. Population in the Human Sciences addresses the need for review and assessment of the framework of interdisciplinary population studies. Limitations to prevailing postwar paradigms like the Evolutionary Synthesis and Demographic Transition were becoming evident by the 1970s. Subsequent decades have witnessed an immense expansion of population modelling and related empirical inquiry, with new genetic developments that have reshaped evolutionary, population, and developmental biology. The rise of anthropological and historical demography, and social network analysis, are playing major roles in rethinking modern and earlier population history. More recently, the emergence of sub-disciplines like biodemography and evolutionary anthropology, and growing links between evolutionary and developmental biology, indicate a growing convergence of biological and social approaches to population.
The Nature Of Difference
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Author : George Ellison
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2006-04-19
The Nature Of Difference written by George Ellison and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-04-19 with Social Science categories.
Unprecedented advances in genetics and biotechnology have brought profound new insights into human biological variation. These present challenges and opportunities for understanding the origins of human nature, the nature of difference, and the social practices these sustain. This provides an opportunity for cooperation between the biological and social sciences – one that is capable of prompting a synergistic exchange of ideas with far-reaching implications. The Nature of Differencecritically analyses biological explanations for morality, criminality, race, sexuality, and disability. Based on the 45th annual symposium of the Society for the Study of Human Biology, this work synthesizes the perspectives of established experts in the field of human biology with those studying the social meanings of human biological variation and scientific practices in human biological research. Some questions addressed by The Nature of Difference: · Is there a biological basis for morality, criminality, witchcraft, sexuality or disability? · What do comparisons of humans and apes tell us about society? · How do people draw on scientific methods to justify racism? · Why do geneticists continue to use racial categories in their research? · Do ethical guidelines constrain or facilitate research into human biology? · Can science and society escape from biological determinism? As biotechnology expands the frontiers of what we know and what we are able to do, and as the genomic revolution moves out of the laboratory and into our daily lives, we are faced with a number of pressing social issues that need to be resolved. Offering an unparalleled collection of multidisciplinary perspectives on the meanings of biological diversity, this book provides readers with a vibrant analysis which revisits these issues with deepened insight from contrasting yet complementary perspectives.
Nature Human Nature And Society
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Author : Paul Heyer
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 1982-09-29
Nature Human Nature And Society written by Paul Heyer and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982-09-29 with History categories.
Biology And The Social Sciences
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Author : Thomas C. Wiegele
language : en
Publisher: Westview Press
Release Date : 1982-02-10
Biology And The Social Sciences written by Thomas C. Wiegele and has been published by Westview Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982-02-10 with Science categories.
Human Biology
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Author : Michael D. Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Benjamin Cummings
Release Date : 2004-07
Human Biology written by Michael D. Johnson and has been published by Benjamin Cummings this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-07 with Human biology categories.
With extensive new material on DNA technology, genetic engineering, and environmental issues, Human Biology: Concepts and Current Issues, Second Edition sparks readers' interest in science and encourages active learning. Writing specifically for the non-majors human biology course, author Michael D. Johnson seeks to make students better consumers of health and science information. Instead of presenting facts to memorize, the magazine-style design and inspired narrative give students a truly engaging learning tool.
Human Evolution Beyond Biology And Culture
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Author : Jeroen C. J. M. van den Bergh
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018-10-18
Human Evolution Beyond Biology And Culture written by Jeroen C. J. M. van den Bergh and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-18 with Nature categories.
A complete account of evolutionary thought in the social, environmental and policy sciences, creating bridges with biology.
On Human Nature
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Author : Jonathan H. Turner
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-11-24
On Human Nature written by Jonathan H. Turner and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-24 with Social Science categories.
In this book, Jonathan H. Turner combines sociology, evolutionary biology, cladistic analysis from biology, and comparative neuroanatomy to examine human nature as inherited from common ancestors shared by humans and present-day great apes. Selection pressures altered this inherited legacy for the ancestors of humans—termed hominins for being bipedal—and forced greater organization than extant great apes when the hominins moved into open-country terrestrial habitats. The effects of these selection pressures increased hominin ancestors’ emotional capacities through greater social and group orientation. This shift, in turn, enabled further selection for a larger brain, articulated speech, and culture along the human line. Turner elaborates human nature as a series of overlapping complexes that are the outcome of the inherited legacy of great apes being fed through the transforming effects of a larger brain, speech, and culture. These complexes, he shows, can be understood as the cognitive complex, the psychological complex, the emotions complex, the interaction complex, and the community complex.