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Sacred Bovines: The Ironies of Misplaced Assumptions in Biology
Douglas Allchin
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Description for Sacred Bovines: The Ironies of Misplaced Assumptions in Biology
Hardback. This book is a collection of short essays, each challenging a commonplace assumption about biology - playfully dubbed "Sacred Bovines." Num Pages: 256 pages, 103. BIC Classification: PS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 156. .
Some assumptions about biology are so deeply rooted in our thinking that they seem beyond question. These concepts - expressed in playful jargon - are our sacred bovines. With a light-hearted spirit, Douglas Allchin sets out to challenge many of these common beliefs about science and life. Allchin draws on fascinating insights from science to illustrate the ironies in many widespread beliefs. Be prepared to challenge the notion that male and female are fixed natural categories. Or that evolution implies cutthroat competition in human society. Or that we struggle against a fundamental immoral nature. Or that genes establish ... Read more
Some assumptions about biology are so deeply rooted in our thinking that they seem beyond question. These concepts - expressed in playful jargon - are our sacred bovines. With a light-hearted spirit, Douglas Allchin sets out to challenge many of these common beliefs about science and life. Allchin draws on fascinating insights from science to illustrate the ironies in many widespread beliefs. Be prepared to challenge the notion that male and female are fixed natural categories. Or that evolution implies cutthroat competition in human society. Or that we struggle against a fundamental immoral nature. Or that genes establish ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780190490362
SKU
V9780190490362
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99-23
About Douglas Allchin
Douglass Allchin is is a historian and philosopher of science and science educator. He holds a PhD in Conceptual Foundations of Science from the University of Chicago. He has taught at the University of Minnesota since 2001. Allchin has published extensively on history of science, philosophy of science and science education. His research focuses primarily on error and ... Read more
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This volume, by the historian and philosopher of science Douglas Allchin, was a pleasure to read. It is the kind of book that one picks up, reads a few chapters, chuckles a little, and then puts down for a few weeks until a happenstance gaze rekindles interest against ones more pressing obligations.
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