RaceIn Kaplan and Winther's recent article (Biol Theory. doi:) they argue for three bold theses: first, that "it is illegitimate to read ontology about 'race' off of biological theory or data"; second, that "using biological theory to ground race is a pernicious reification"; and, third...
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Thus, while theories from evolutionary biology have been helpful in providing ideas and frameworks for theories of cultural evolution, the analogy is imperfect and there must be careful discernment about which specific aspects of biological evolutionary theory are and are not applicable to cultural ...
This book contributes to the growing debates about social theory and its role through a discussion of the ways in which gender and race contributed to the exclusion of important thinkers from the sociological canon' - John Hughes, Lancaster University Who makes up the 'canon' of sociology - and...
Contrary to the biopolitical logic of metabolic syndrome, human metabolism is not, and has never been, a strictly biological phenomenon. Rather, metabolism is a site for the kind of biopolitics that simultaneously manufactures health problems and their remedies, deploys race as a way of concealing...
critical race theory英英释义 noun a group of concepts (such as the idea that race (see race entry 1 sense 1a) is a sociological rather than biological designation, and that racism (see racism sense 2a) pervades society and is fostered and perpetuated by the legal system) used for examining...
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small single base differences (DNA "accent" differences), which would impede pairing. This would impede recombination, so would have the potential to promote speciation (Forsdyke1996). Thus, the DNAs ofdifferent biological specieswould have come to differ in their GC% values (Chargaff's GC ...
Introduction Biological control is an ecosystem service in which a pest or weed is effectively controlled through interactions with its natural enemies, and in many cases the natural enemies are insects [1]. The control of alien invasive species through the deliberate introduction of specialist ...
1.2.6. Other Biological Aging-Related Theories The existence of “senescent cells,” which accelerate aging in the body, has been the topic of growing attention among gerontologists. In general, aged cells that have stopped dividing are removed from the body through cell death or the phagocytosis...