Rethinking heredity, again.

Rethinking Edgar Tekere’s A Lifetime of Struggle

This article seeks to interrogate the construction of identities in Edgar Tekeres A Lifetime of Struggle for the purposes of establishing political legitimacy and heroism for himself.This article observers that the autobiographical narrator attempts to achieve this end through constructing heroic identities on a multiplicity of sites such as heredity, military,prisoner,welfare,masculine,intelle...

The Double Pedigree: A Method for Studying Culturally and Genetically Inherited Behavior in Tandem

Transgenerational sources of biological variation have been at the center of evolutionary studies ever since Darwin and Wallace identified natural selection. This is because evolution can only operate on traits whose variation is transmitted, i.e. traits that are heritable. The discovery of genetic inheritance has led to a semantic shift, resulting in the tendency to consider that only genes ar...

Rethinking Philosophy in an Oriental Way

Book Reviews and Abstracts

on the following subjects:?the incidence of defect; the physiology of reproduction; various types of insanity (apparently picked at random); the menace of the feeble minded; criminal insanity; sterilisation, voluntary and compulsory; birth control, and a Chapter entitled "Terrible Families," giving an account of the Kallikak and the Jukes family. Very highly debatable propositions are set down ...

Hamid al-Din Kermani rethinking Isma‘ilian theory of imamate

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