WGS160Y1 Study Guide - Meritocracy, Horse Breeding, Eugenics
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Anthropomorphic taking human attributes and giving it to non-human species. Using it as a lens as a way to think about bird behaviour. Ex) some ducks rape females, see female birds have equivalent of female pms (avian) which means since animals have it, means it is natural for human females to have it too. Also example of how women"s body is closer to nature. What happens in naturalism then is not getting rid of context, but saying everything in organisms, molecular biology, biochemical, genes, and etc, is natural. Therefore things like race, personal relationships, class location, cultures, nation, historical location, sexuality/identity etc is natural. When working only with darwin"s theory of evolution hard to explain things like peacock"s tale. Important to note following 7 general themes for. Darwin arguing against centuries of thinking of spirituality. Race itself is biological category, used image of racial family tree suggesting it is a natural. Possible do biologic in a reductionist way growth.
