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Over The Last Thirty Years, Many Scientists Have Come To Insist That Our Behaviour Is Governed By Our Genes-above All When It Comes To Sex, Which, We Are Told, Is How Genes Perpetuate Themselves. Sex Certainly Seems More Complicated Than A Matter Of Our Dna Struggling To Survive And That's Because It Is. Eldredge Directly Confronts Those Who Would Cast Us As Puppets Of Biological Imperatives Rooted Deep In Our Hunter-gatherer Past. Their Models, He Points Out, Are Based On Lower Forms Of Life. In Humans, There Is An Intricate Interplay Between Meeting Our Needs For Day-to-day Survival, Sex And Reproduction (the Human Triangle)-further Complicated By Cultural Forces (customs, Laws) That Routinely Override Selfish-gene Behaviour. Rethink The Assumptions Of Today's Science In The Important Task Of Understanding Ourselves. The Duality Of Life -- Obsessed With Genes -- Chickens And Eggs : The Two Sides Of Life -- The Natural Economy -- The Consequences Of Baby Making -- Economics + Babies + Time = Evolution -- Clones, Colonies, And Social Life -- Human Singularities -- Naught So Queere As Folke : The Strange Biology Of Modern Humans -- The Human Triangle -- Sex Decoupled -- Up Close And

Author

NILES ELDREDGE

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company; Norton

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780393050820

Subjects

Medical, Stem

Rating

3.25 / 5 (42 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14