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Biological determinism lives and needs refutation despite denials

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 1999

Steven Rose
Steven Rose
Affiliation:
Biology Department, Brain and Behaviour Research Group, Open University, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, United [email protected]
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Abstract

Commentators are divided between those who welcome and creatively extend the agenda of Lifelines and those who defend what it criticises. My response covers style; history, politics, and ethics; concepts of freedom, active organisms, and determinism; the uses of metaphor; reductionism and levels of analysis; Darwin and Darwinists; heritability and intelligence; human universals and biological determinism.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 22 , Issue 5 , October 1999 , pp. 912 - 918
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© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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