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RAINBOW ISLAND: EVOLUTION
Author: Evolution's Rainbow
Author: Joan RoughgardenPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520957970
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 491
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In this innovative celebration of diversity and affirmation of individuality in animals and humans, Joan Roughgarden challenges accepted wisdom about gender identity and sexual orientation. A distinguished evolutionary biologist, Roughgarden takes on the medical establishment, the Bible, social science—and even Darwin himself. She leads the reader through a fascinating discussion of diversity in gender and sexuality among fish, reptiles, amphibians, birds, and mammals, including primates. Evolution's Rainbow explains how this diversity develops from the action of genes and hormones and how people come to differ from each other in all aspects of body and behavior. Roughgarden reconstructs primary science in light of feminist, gay, and transgender criticism and redefines our understanding of sex, gender, and sexuality. Witty, playful, and daring, this book will revolutionize our understanding of sexuality. Roughgarden argues that principal elements of Darwinian sexual selection theory are false and suggests a new theory that emphasizes social inclusion and control of access to resources and mating opportunity. She disputes a range of scientific and medical concepts, including Wilson's genetic determinism of behavior, evolutionary psychology, the existence of a gay gene, the role of parenting in determining gender identity, and Dawkins's "selfish gene" as the driver of natural selection. She dares social science to respect the agency and rationality of diverse people; shows that many cultures across the world and throughout history accommodate people we label today as lesbian, gay, and transgendered; and calls on the Christian religion to acknowledge the Bible's many passages endorsing diversity in gender and sexuality. Evolution's Rainbow concludes with bold recommendations for improving education in biology, psychology, and medicine; for democratizing genetic engineering and medical practice; and for building a public monument to affirm diversity as one of our nation's defining principles.
At the Rainbow's Edge
Author: Kenny AnthonyPublisher: Ian Randle Publishers
ISBN: 9766371571
Category : Campaign speeches
Languages : en
Pages : 407
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Life in the 21st Century
Author: Viktoras P. KulvinskasPublisher:
ISBN: 9780933278004
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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Religion in America
Author: James V GeisendorferPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004667407
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 179
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The Dragon and the Rainbow
Author: Robert BlustPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004678301
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 369
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Modernization and conversion to world religions are threatening the survival of traditional belief systems, leaving behind only mysterious traces of their existence. This book, based upon extensive research conducted over a period of nearly four decades, brings scientific rigor to one of the questions that have always attracted human curiosity: that of the origin of the dragon. The author demonstrates that both dragons and rainbows are cultural universals, that many of the traits that are attributed to dragons in widely separated parts of the planet are also attributed to rainbows, and that the number and antiquity of such shared traits cannot be attributed to chance or common inheritance, but rather to common cognitive pathways by which human psychology has responded to the natural environment in a wide array of cultures around the world.
Evolution Explosion
Author: Stephen R PalumbiPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393323382
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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While the ecological impact of human technology has been well publicized, the evolutionary consequences of antibiotic and antiviral use have been largely unexplored. Palumbi examines these practical and critical aspects of modern evolution with a simple, yet forceful style that contains both an urgent message and a sense of humor.
EVO Teachers Guide
Author: Rodger W. BybeePublisher: NSTA Press
ISBN: 1936137348
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 102
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"In this film you'll learn-- among other things-- that evolution and religion are, indeed, compatible ways of looking at the world; that Darwin was a creationist before he was an evolutionist; and that cooperation is just as important as competition in the struggle for existence." --From Hummingbird Films website.
Evolution
Author: Monroe W. StrickbergerPublisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
ISBN: 9780763710668
Category : Evolution (Biology)
Languages : en
Pages : 748
Book Description
Evolution, Third Edition presents biology students with a basic introduction to prevailing knowledge and ideas about evolution-how, why, and where the world and its organisms changed through history. By using a range of disciplines to explain the events and causes for organismic change, this text will help build a foundation of evolutionary thought in the often specialized framework of a biology major's curriculum. Evolution unfolds through topics that include the philosophical and historical background of evolutionary thought; cosmological and geological evolution and its impact on life; the origins of life on Earth; the development of molecular pathways, from genetic systems to organismic morphology and function; the evolutionary history of organisms, from microbes to animals; and the numerous molecular and populational concepts which explain the living Earth's dynamic evolution.
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