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After World War II, the question of how to define a universal human nature took on new urgency. Creatures of Cain charts the rise and precipitous fall in Cold War America of a theory that attributed man's evolutionary success to his unique capacity for murder.Drawing on a wealth of archival materials and in-depth interviews, Erika Lorraine Milam reveals how the scientists who advanced this "killer ape" theory capitalized on an expanding postwar market in intellectual paperbacks and widespread faith in the power of science to solve humanity's problems, even to answer the most fundamental questions of human identity. The killer ape theory spread quickly from colloquial science publications to late-night television, classrooms, political debates, and Hollywood films. Behind the scenes, however, scientists were sharply divided, their disagreements centering squarely on questions of race and gender. Then, in the 1970s, the theory unraveled altogether when primatologists discovered that chimpanzees also kill members of their own species. While the discovery brought an end to definitions of human exceptionalism delineated by violence, Milam shows how some evolutionists began to argue for a shared chimpanzee-human history of aggression even as other scientists discredited such theories as sloppy popularizations.A wide-ranging account of a compelling episode in American science, Creatures of Cain argues that the legacy of the killer ape persists today in the conviction that science can resolve the essential dilemmas of human nature.

Philosophical anthropology --- Science --- Evolution (Biology) --- Human evolution. --- Cold War --- Violence --- Sociobiology. --- Humanity. --- Human behavior. --- History --- Philosophy. --- Social aspects --- History. --- Cold War (1945-1989) --- 1900-1999 --- USA --- United States. --- 1970s. --- Africa. --- Charles Darwin. --- Christianity. --- Cold War. --- David Hamburg. --- Desmond Morris. --- Elaine Morgan. --- Enlightenment. --- Hollywood. --- Jane Goodall. --- John Conlan. --- Konrad Lorenz. --- Lionel Tiger. --- Loren Eiseley. --- Robert Ardrey. --- Robin Fox. --- Second World War. --- Stone Age. --- The Descent of Woman. --- The Naked Ape. --- Woman the Gatherer. --- academics. --- aggression. --- animal behavior. --- animals. --- anthropology. --- behavioral norms. --- biology. --- brain sciences. --- chimpanzees. --- collaboration. --- communities. --- cooperation. --- cultural relativism. --- culture. --- education. --- emotions. --- equality. --- evolutionary success. --- evolutionary thinking. --- evolutionists. --- film. --- gendered roles. --- genes. --- great apes. --- human ancestry. --- human behavior. --- human evolution. --- human exceptionalism. --- human history. --- human identity. --- human lineage. --- human nature. --- human origins. --- human social bonding. --- humanity. --- humor. --- intellectual development. --- killer ape theory. --- leadership. --- male authority. --- man. --- mankind. --- masculinist narratives. --- media. --- men. --- modern humans. --- modern man. --- murder. --- natural historians. --- natural sciences. --- natural selection. --- nature. --- nuclear escalation. --- nurture. --- politics. --- primates. --- proto-culture. --- race. --- sarcasm. --- scientific empiricism. --- sexual attraction. --- sexual selection. --- sexual signal. --- social chaos. --- social hierarchies. --- social norms. --- social policies. --- social policy. --- social sciences. --- sociobiologists. --- sociobiology. --- stereotypes. --- television. --- trait. --- urban unrest. --- violence. --- warriors. --- white society. --- women anthropologists.

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"Currently scholarship on science and religion covers a range of topics, including religious responses to scientific and technological developments, methodological approaches to the study of science and religion, and normative proposals for the relationship between the categories. Despite this breadth, the field typically frames important questions of human existence as abstract philosophical and theological inquiries. But what if these are not two distinctly separate categories ? Can science and religion scholarship become more public-facing and speak directly to the social and political issues that shape our everyday lives ? With Critical Approaches to Science and Religion, Myrna Perez Sheldon, Ahmed Ragab, and Terence Keel argue that this is possible when perspectives from three areas of critical theory-critical-race theory, feminist and queer theory, and postcolonial theory-are brought to bear on the field. By engaging with these critical theories, scholars would be better able to account for how histories of empire, slavery, and patriarchy have shaped science and religion in modern times. Developing this critical historical perspective would, in turn, enable science and religion scholarship to speak meaningfully to contemporary political issues including climate change, immigration, healthcare, reproductive justice, and sexual identity. The book seeks to reframe the study of science and religion such that those who engage with its scholarship will be better positioned to explore questions such as: should religious communities be exempt from government mandated healthcare provisions based on health science ? Should religious leaders make public claims about the status of life and personhood in reaction to changing reproductive an genetic technologies ? Are indigenous communities obligated to believe the Out of Africa hypothesis developed by Euro-American biologists ? The intent of these and similar questions is to encourage an approach to the study of science and religion that more fully addresses the lied realities of contemporary communities around the globe"--

Religion and science. --- Religion --- Critical race theory --- Feminist theory --- Postcolonialism --- Queer theory --- Religion et sciences. --- Théorie critique de la race --- Théorie féministe --- Postcolonialisme --- Théorie queer --- Philosophy --- Philosophie