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Extended Heredity

A New Understanding of Inheritance and Evolution

By: Russell Bonduriansky,Troy Day

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Extended Heredity

A New Understanding of Inheritance and Evolution

By: Russell Bonduriansky,Troy Day

Bonduriansky and Day challenge the premise that genes alone mediate the transmission of biological information across generations and provide the raw material for natural selection. They explore the latest research showing that what happens during our lifetimes--and even our parents' and grandparents' lifetimes--can influence the features of our descendants. Based on this evidence, Bonduriansky and Day develop an extended concept of heredity that upends ideas about how traits can and cannot be transmitted across generations, opening the door to a new understanding of inheritance, evolution, and even human health. --Adapted from publisher description.

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0691204144

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Extended Heredity

A New Understanding of Inheritance and Evolution

By: Russell Bonduriansky,Troy Day

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Extended Heredity

A New Understanding of Inheritance and Evolution

By: Russell Bonduriansky,Troy Day

How genes are not the only basis of heredity—and what this means for evolution, human life, and disease For much of the twentieth century it was assumed that genes alone mediate the transmission of biological information across generations and provide the raw material for natural selection. In Extended Heredity, leading evolutionary biologists Russell Bonduriansky and Troy Day challenge this premise. Drawing on the latest research, they demonstrate that what happens during our lifetimes--and even our grandparents' and great-grandparents' lifetimes—can influence the features of our descendants. On the basis of these discoveries, Bonduriansky and Day develop an extended concept of heredity that upends ideas about how traits can and cannot be transmitted across generations. By examining the history of the gene-centered view in modern biology and reassessing fundamental tenets of evolutionary theory, Bonduriansky and Day show that nongenetic inheritance—involving epigenetic, environmental, behavioral, and cultural factors—could play an important role in evolution. The discovery of nongenetic inheritance therefore has major implications for key questions in evolutionary biology, as well as human health. Extended Heredity reappraises long-held ideas and opens the door to a new understanding of inheritance and evolution.

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1400890152

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Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare

By: Bertrand Russell

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Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare

By: Bertrand Russell

Available for the first time in many years, Commonsense and Nuclear Warfare presents Russell's keen insights into the threat of nuclear conflict, and his argument that the only way to end this threat is to end war itself. Written at the height of the Cold War, this volume is crucial for understanding Russell's involvement in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and his passionate campaigning for peace. It remains an extremely important book in today's uncertain nuclear world, and is essential reading for all those interested in Russell and postwar history. Includes a new introduction by Ken Coates, Chairman of The Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation.

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Routledge

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1135642168

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9781135642167

Principles of Social Reconstruction

By: Bertrand Russell

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Principles of Social Reconstruction

By: Bertrand Russell

Originally entitled Why Men Fight, this work is generally seen as the fullest expression of Russell's political philosophy. The ideas laid out here greatly contributed to Russell's fame as a social critic and anti-war activist.

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0043201377

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Détente Or Destruction, 1955-57

By: Bertrand Russell

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Détente Or Destruction, 1955-57

By: Bertrand Russell

Détente or Destruction, 1955-57 continues publication of Routledge's multi-volume critical edition of Bertrand Russell's shorter writings. Between September 1955 and November 1957 Russell published some sixty-one articles, reviews, statements, contributions to books and letters to editors, over fifty of which are contained in this volume. The texts, several of them hitherto unpublished, reveal the deepening of Russell's commitment to the anti-nuclear struggle, upon which he embarked in the previous volume of Collected Papers (Man's Peril, 1954-55). Continuing with the theme of nuclear peril, this volume contains discussion of nuclear weapons, world peace, prospects for disarmament and British-Soviet friendship against the backdrop of the Cold War. One of the key papers in this volume is Russell's message to the inaugural conference of the Pugwash movement, which Russell was instrumental in launching and which became an influential, independent forum of East-West scientific cooperation and counsel on issues as an internationally agreed nuclear test-ban. In addition to the issues of war and peace, Russell, now in his eighties, continued to take an interest in a wide variety of themes. Russell not only addresses older controversies over nationalism and empire, religious belief and American civil liberties, he also confronts head-on the new and pressing matters of armed intervention in Hungary and Suez, and of the manufacture and testing of the British hydrogen bomb. This volume includes seven interviews ranging from East-West Relations after the Geneva conference to a Meeting with Russell.

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Psychology Press

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041535837X

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9780415358378

Human Society in Ethics and Politics

By: Bertrand Russell

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Human Society in Ethics and Politics

By: Bertrand Russell

In this book Russell gives a logical analysis of ethical concepts and principles. He goes on to relate his ethical conclusions to politics and religion. It is his only extended statement of his later views on ethics.

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1134523831

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9781134523832

The Impact of Science on Society

By: Bertrand Russell

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The Impact of Science on Society

By: Bertrand Russell

Many of the revolutionary effects of science and technology are obvious enough. Bertrand Russell saw in the 1950s that there are also many negative aspects of scientific innovation. Insightful and controversial in equal measure, Russell argues that science offers the world greater well-being than it has ever known, on the condition that prosperity is dispersed; power is diffused by means of a single, world government; birth rates do not become too high; and war is abolished. Russell acknowledges that is a tall order, but remains essentially optimistic. He imagines mankind in a 'race between human skill as to means and human folly as to ends', but believes human society will ultimately choose the path of reason. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Preface by Tim Sluckin.

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1317230027

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Education and the Social Order

By: Bertrand Russell

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Education and the Social Order

By: Bertrand Russell

Despite the disastrous failure of his one practical attempt to create a perfect school, Russell constantly strove to invent a system of education free from repression. Here Russell dissects the motives behind much educational theory and practice - and attacks the influence of chauvanism, snobbery and money. Energetically discussed and debated are discipline, natural ability, competition, class distinction, bureaucracy, finance, religion, sex education, state versus private schools, education in Russia, indoctrination, the home environment and many other topics. Described by reviewers as 'brilliant', 'provocative', 'sane', 'stimulating', 'practical', and 'original', this book contains the essence of Russell's thought on education and society.

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1135858047

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Power

A New Social Analysis

By: Bertrand Russell

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Power

A New Social Analysis

By: Bertrand Russell

Published as part of a batch of Russell titles, Russell is a long over-due addition to the Routledge Classics series. With a new preface by Samuel Brittan, a columnist on the Financial Times In this brilliant study Russell discusses the psychology of revolutionary leaders, various cultures and periods in history and brings a new order of comprehension into the problems of human government. Russell - British philosopher, logician, essayist, and renowned peace advocate. One of the greatest thinkers the world has ever produced, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950.

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1135152470

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9781135152475

The Problem of China

By: Bertrand Russell

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The Problem of China

By: Bertrand Russell

Though it was penned nearly a century ago, current-day readers will find that Bertrand Russell's insightful critique of China is still surprisingly accurate. The important British philosopher based his arguments on his own extended stay in China, and the resulting analysis of the conflict between traditional culture and the rise of capitalism in the country is keen and multi-dimensional.

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The Floating Press

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1776583973

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The Conquest of Happiness

By: Bertrand Russell

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The Conquest of Happiness

By: Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell describes the purpose of this book as the putting together of some remarks on the state of happiness which are inspired by common sense, rather than any profound philosophy or deep erudition. It is based on the belief that many people who are unhappy could become happy by well-directed effort.

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Psychology Press

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0415098645

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9780415098649

The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism (Dodo Press)

By: Bertrand Russell

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The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism (Dodo Press)

By: Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell (1872-1970), was a philosopher, historian, logician, mathematician, advocate for social reform, and pacifist. A prolific writer, he was a populariser of philosophy and a commentator on a large variety of topics. Continuing a family tradition in political affairs; he was a prominent anti-war activist, championing free trade between nations and anti-imperialism. He also authored Principia Mathematica (with Alfred North Whitehead), an attempt to ground Mathematics on the laws of Logic and the essay On Denoting. He was a vigorous proponent of nuclear disarmament, antagonist to communist totalitarianism and an outspoken critic of the Vietnam War. Previously he had been imprisoned and deprived of his Fellowship of Trinity College as a vigorous peace campaigner and opponent of conscription during WW1. He visited the emerging Soviet Union which subsequently met with his disapproval and vigorous campaign against Adolf Hitler in the 1930s. In 1950, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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1409901025

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Man's Peril, 1954-55

By: Bertrand Russell

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Man's Peril, 1954-55

By: Bertrand Russell

This volume signals reinvigoration of Russell the public campaigner and captures the essence of Russell's thinking about nuclear weapons and the Cold War in the mid 1950s.

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0415094240

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9780415094245

Why Men Fight

By: Bertrand Russell

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Why Men Fight

By: Bertrand Russell

Also published under the title of Principals of Social Reconstruction, and written in response to the devastation of World War I, Why Men Fight lays out Bertrand Russell's ideas on war, pacifism, reason, impulse, and personal liberty. He argues that the individualistic approach of traditional liberalism has reached its limits and that when individuals live passionately, they will have no desire for war or killing. Conversely, excessive restraint or reason causes us to live unnaturally and with hostility toward those who are unlike ourselves. This formidable work greatly contributed to Russell's fame as a formidable social critic and anti-war activist.

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0415487382

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9780415487382

Authority and the Individual

By: Bertrand Russell

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Authority and the Individual

By: Bertrand Russell

AUTHORITY AND THE INDIVIDUAL BY BERTRAND RUSSELL HUMAN KNOWLEDGE: ITS SCOPE AND LIMITS HISTORY OF WESTERN PHILOSOPHY THE PRINCIPLES OF MATHEMATICS INTRODUCTION TO MATHEMATICAL PHILOSOPHY THE ANALYSIS OF MIND OUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE EXTERNAL WORLD AN OUTLINE OF PHILOSOPHY THE PHILOSOPHY OF LEIBNIZ AN INQUIRY INTO MEANING AND TRUTH POWER IN PRAISE OF IDLENESS THE CONQUEST OF HAPPINESS SCEPTICAL ESSAYS MYSTICISM AND LOGIC THE SCIENTIFIC OUTLOOK MARRIAGE AND MORALS EDUCATION AND THE SOCIAL ORDER ON EDUCATION FREEDOM AND ORGANIZATION, 1814-1914 PRINCIPLES OF SOCIAL RECONSTRUCTION ROADS TO FREEDOM JUSTICE IN WARTIME FREE THOUGHT AND OFFICIAL PROPAGANDA THE PROBLEM OF CHINA

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Hesperides Press

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1443725099

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9781443725095

The Prospects of Industrial Civilisation

By: Bertrand Russell,Dora Russell

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The Prospects of Industrial Civilisation

By: Bertrand Russell,Dora Russell

The Prospects of Industrial Civilization provides a rare glimpse into areas of Russell's political thought which are often ignored. Written with Dora Black (who became Russell's second wife) on a trip to China in 1920, it is revealing both as a period piece and as a book for our times. Russell criticises his own age, and demonstrates how humanity perpetually struggles against the centralising forces of industrialism and nationalism. He views industrialism as a threat to human freedom, as it creates large populations which have to be subject to controls and he likens Bolshevik Russia to Cromwell's England, asserting that both were dictatorships designed to force an essentially feudal society to adopt industrialism. He sees industrialism and nationalism as fundamentally linked and proposes one government for the whole world as a solution. Russell is not blind to the positive side of industrialism; without machines an economy of subsistence would be the best for which society could hope, but argues that the global village and prevailing political democracy should be its eventual results.

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1317959434

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Book's by Russell Bonduriansky

Extended Heredity

Extended Heredity

Extended Heredity

Extended Heredity

Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare

Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare

Principles of Social Reconstruction

Principles of Social Reconstruction

Détente Or Destruction, 1955-57

Détente Or Destruction, 1955-57

Human Society in Ethics and Politics

Human Society in Ethics and Politics

The Impact of Science on Society

The Impact of Science on Society

Education and the Social Order

Education and the Social Order

Power

Power

The Problem of China

The Problem of China

The Conquest of Happiness

The Conquest of Happiness

The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism (Dodo Press)

The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism (Dodo Press)

Man's Peril, 1954-55

Man's Peril, 1954-55

Why Men Fight

Why Men Fight

Authority and the Individual

Authority and the Individual

The Prospects of Industrial Civilisation

The Prospects of Industrial Civilisation

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