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The Imagined World Made Real: Towards a Natural Science of Culture (Hardcover)
by H.C. Plotkin (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 300 pages
  • Publisher: Allen Lane (7 Mar 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0713994088
  • ISBN-13: 978-0713994087
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,002,018 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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Can the insights of science provide a proper understanding of human culture, or must the analysis of culture be left to the so-called human sciences - anthropology, psychology, or sociology? "The Imagined World Made Real" is an attempt to marry the human and biological sciences, bridging the gulf between these various disciplines. The theory of evolution provides the bridge. The text can be used as an introduction to evolutionary theory and its analysis of human nature, offering a unified approach to the natural and human sciences.

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3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Constructionist sociobiology, 29 Dec 2003
By JP Roos (Helsinki university, Finland) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Imagined World Made Real: Towards a Natural Science of Culture (Penguin Press Science) (Paperback)
Henry Plotkin is professor of psychobiology and as the name implies, tries to present a synthesis of biology and culture in The imagined world made real. Plotkin is well versed in the evolutionary theory of mind and its relevance to cultural theory. He discusses in an especially interesting way intelligence and its relevance. Also his presentation of Vygotsky's ideas makes him exceptional. He discusses interestingly the well-known problem of group-level vs. individuals as the unit of adaptation. Plotkin's work in exceptional in that he believes this synthesis is essentially a two-way road. Biology will also benefit from understanding of culture and most especially from the idea of social construction. For Plotkin "culture is an expression of human intelligence constrained by the advantages of group-level adaptation". I strongly doubt that group-level adaptation is a workable concept and that constructionism can really be conciled with evolutionary theory, but otherwise Plotkin's work is a good read. And it definitely will not scare sociologists, who are treated with consideration
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