BECAS
OLMEDO GIOMPLIAKIS Ariel Alejandro
artículos
Título:
"Genes" y Sociobiologia: usos y abusos de lenguajes y metáforas en Biología
Autor/es:
ARIEL OLMEDO GIOMPLIAKIS; LUCRECIA ESTIGARRIBIA
Revista:
LUDUS VITALIS
Editorial:
ludus vitalis
Referencias:
Año: 2016
ISSN:
1133-5165
Resumen:
This paper attempts to identify some of the conditions that enabled therevitalization of biological determinism in the second half of the twentiethcentury. It will analyze the simultaneous influence exerted by gene centrism,reductionist Positivism and a series of ?traveling metaphors? that allowed theemergence of such an ambitious research program as sociobiology. It will thenshow that the emergence of this sub-discipline involves the reappearance ofnew variants of biological determinism. Due to linking the genetics of thetwentieth century with some notions of Positivism, as well as a set of reifiedmetaphors, a new biological determinism was accomplished. Finally, it willargue that despite the almost instantaneous rejection of sociobiology, thederivated ?truth effects? from these discourses are installed in biology, influencinglexicons and methodologies.
