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This text asks the question: are our personalities and capabilities predetermined by our genes? Using tools of population genetics, it argues that biological differences are a small part of what makes individuals unique.

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Following in the fashion of Stephen Jay Gould and Peter Medawar, one of the world's leading scientists examines how "pure science" is in fact shaped and guided by social and political needs and assumptions.

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Lewontin affronta, in termini accessibili a tutti, il problema del senso generale della ricerca scientifica. La scienza è innanzi tutto una istituzione sociale, più precisamente quella che nell'età moderna ha sostituito la Chiesa come fonte di legittimazione del potere. Non si tratta solo dei colossali interessi coinvolti, ma anche dell'ideologia implicita nella scienza biologica, per cui, da Darwin a oggi, si è passati dal determinismo ambien...

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The years following 1945 witnessed a massive change in American intellectual thought and in the life of American universities. The vast effort to mobilize intellectual talent during the war established new links between the government and the academy. After the war, many of those who had worked with the military or the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) took jobs in the burgeoning postwar structure of university-based military research and the...

Para comprender los seres vivos hay que entender los genes, los organismos y el ambiente como tres factores en constante interacción.En muchos ejemplos fascinantes, Lewontin muestra que la historia del desarrollo de un organismo es la consecuencia única de dos factores: sus genes y las incidencias de los entornos en los que se ha encontrado a lo largo de su vida. Sin embargo, estas dos influencias están sujetas, a su vez, al efecto de eventos ...