The State of Nature: Ecology, Community, and American Social Thought, 1900-1950 - Science & its Conceptual Foundations Series SCF - Gregg Mitman - Libros - The University of Chicago Press - 9780226532370 - 1 de octubre de 1992
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The State of Nature: Ecology, Community, and American Social Thought, 1900-1950 - Science & its Conceptual Foundations Series SCF 1.º edición


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Although science may claim to be "objective," scientists cannot avoid the influence of their own values on their research. In The State of Nature, Gregg Mitman examines the relationship between issues in early twentieth-century American society and the sciences of evolution and ecology to reveal how explicit social and political concerns influenced the scientific agenda of biologists at the University of Chicago and throughout the United States during the first half of this century.

Reacting against the view of nature "red in tooth and claw," ecologists and behavioral biologists such as Warder Clyde Allee, Alfred Emerson, and their colleagues developed research programs they hoped would validate and promote an image of human society as essentially cooperative rather than competitive. Mitman argues that Allee's religious training and pacifist convictions shaped his pioneering studies of animal communities in a way that could be generalized to denounce the view that war is in our genes.


304 pages

Medios de comunicación Libros     Paperback Book   (Libro con tapa blanda y lomo encolado)
Publicado 1 de octubre de 1992
ISBN13 9780226532370
Editores The University of Chicago Press
Páginas 304
Dimensiones 150 × 220 × 10 mm   ·   425 g
Lengua Inglés  

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