Blind to the Obvious: the Resistance to Neo-Darwinian Sociology.
- đ¤ Speaker: W G Runciman
- đ Date & Time: Wednesday 18 November 2009, 17:30 - 18:30
- đ Venue: Yusuf Hamied Centre, Christ's College
Abstract
The lecture asks why sociologists have been as resistant as they have to the application of neo-Darwinian theory to the study of collective human behaviour, despite the by now acknowledged validity of Darwin’s fundamental insight into the nature of the evolutionary process.
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W G Runciman
Wednesday 18 November 2009, 17:30-18:30