文档介绍：Biology and the Social Sciences
Author(s): Edward O. Wilson
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Source: Daedalus, Vol. 106, No. 4, Discoveries and Interpretations: Studies in Contemporary
Scholarship, Volume II (Fall, 1977), pp. 127-140
Published by: The MIT Press on behalf of American Academy of Arts & Sciences
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EDWARD O. WILSON
Biology and the Social Sciences
a correct statement a statement. But the of a
The opposite of is false opposite
truth.?Niels Bohr
profound truth may well be another profound
an
For every discipline in its early stages of development there exists antidisci
for
pline. For many-body physics, particle physics; chemistry, many-body
molecular biol
physics; for molecular biology, chemistry; for cellular biology,
to
ogy; and so forth. With the word antidiscipline I wish emphasize the special
adversary relation that exists initially between the studies of adjacent levels of
of a
organization. This relationship is also creative, and with the passage great
deal of time it es plementary.
now to
In this article I will argue that biology has moved close enough the
social sciences to e their antidiscipline. Hitherto biology has affected the
as
social sciences largely through technological manifestations such the benefits
of medicine, the mixed b