Science as Ideology: The Rejection and Reception of Sociobiology in China

Journal of the History of Biology

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 567-578

  Jianhui, Li ^a   Fan, Hong ^b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Culture studies; Edward O. Wilson; Evolutionary biology in China; Social Darwinism; Sociobiology; Theory reception

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; CHINA; CONFERENCE PAPER; HISTORY; PHILOSOPHY; SCIENCE; UNITED STATES;

BIOLOGY; CHINA; HISTORIOGRAPHY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; PHILOSOPHY; SCIENCE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0346333309     PISSN: 00225010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:HIST.0000004580.34274.78     Document Type: Conference Paper

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