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  title info:
    title: Killer apes, naked apes, & just plain nasty people
    sub title: the misuse and abuse of science in politics
  title info:
    title: Killer apes, naked apes, and just plain nasty people
  name:
    name part: Perry, Richard John
    name part: 1942-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mdu
    date issued: 2015
    copyright date: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiii, 212 pages ; 23 cm
  abstract: In Killer Apes, Naked Apes, and Just Plain Nasty People, anthropologist Richard J. Perry delivers a scathing critique of determinism. Exploring the historical context and enduring popularity of the movement over the past century and a half, he debunks the facile and the reductionist thinking of so many popularizers of biological determinism while considering why biological explanations have resonated in ways that serve to justify deeply conservative points of view.
  table of contents: Introduction. Where are we going with this? There's a history here -- What's in a word.
  table of contents: 1. Don't get me started. Humans and "Nature" -- It wasn't always about biology -- But maybe they really are different! -- It's all uphill from here -- Romantic supremacy -- Philosophical biology -- Biological stories. -- 2, Eugenics: Bad people, good people, better people. The right sorts of people -- What's to be done? -- Parasites and pests -- Manipulating biology -- The gift of IQ -- Boas and "Fixed Traits" -- Out with eugenics, for now; but we still have IQ! -- 3. Killer apes, naked apes, and just plain nasty people. Enter the killer apes... -- Followed by the naked ape... -- Followed by nasty people -- It gets worse -- A serious flaw in the argument -- I know, but it still seems real -- Back to eugenics. -- 4. Mind games. Social programs? Not so fast -- Seeing double -- Wait - What were those scores again? -- You say heritability, I say inheritance - Let's call the whole thing off -- Let's get that social ranking straight -- Nothing if not persistent -- Twins, again! -- Hot air from Canada and from across the Pond -- Everyone needs a friend. -- 5. Sociobiology: A new science of the same old thing. "Go to the ant, thou sluggard. Consider her ways and be wise" -- Edward, have you met Herbert? -- Quiet...I think the genes are up to something -- What's good for the goose -- Wait...Are we still doing science? -- Pull up a chair; It's story time -- The generic "Primitive" -- Americans and Brits: The generic humans -- A genetic guide to behavior. -- 6. And yet another new science of the same old thing. It blinded them with science -- It takes a village -- Making the exotic familiar, and the familiar genetic -- Waltz of the pseudohypotheses -- What's with the big brain, anyway? -- What, indeed? -- 7. That's just about enough of that. "When wild in the woods the noble savage ran" -- Steven - You look as if you've seen a ghost -- Calm down; It's only an abstraction -- Are you still here? -- What's the big deal? -- What's the score so far? -- Some things we do know about …
  note: Richard J. Perry.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Sociobiology
  subject:
    topic: Anthropology
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Political anthropology
  subject:
    topic: Science
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Science and civilization
  subject:
    topic: Anthropology
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Political anthropology
  subject:
    topic: Science and civilization
  subject:
    topic: Science
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Sociobiology
  classification: GN365.9 .P47 2015
  classification: 304.5
  identifier: 9781421417516
  identifier: 1421417510
  identifier: 9781421417523
  identifier: 1421417529 (electronic)
  identifier: 2014043205
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 150330
    record change date: 20170928135206.0
    record identifier: in00003594237
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng