The State of Nature

Ecology, Community, and American Social Thought, 1900-1950

By: Gregg Mitman

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Hardcover | 1 October 1992 | Edition Number 1

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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.

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Non-Fiction Science Science in General Impact of Science & Technology on Society Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning The Environment Social Impact of Environmental Issues History of Science Biology, Life Sciences Life Sciences in General Ecological Science Engineering & Technology

Environmental Science Applied Ecology Society & Culture Cultural Studies Philosophy of Science History

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Nature's Many Facets
Environmental Interactions
Biology as Gospel
Cooperationist Beginnings
Population Problems
The Integrity of the Group
From the Biological to the Social
Building a Cooperative World
Redefining the Economy of Nature
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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Ecology, Community, and American Social Thought, 1900-1950

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