Genética desde El Génesis
- 1 Departamento de Zoología, Genética y Antropología Física, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
ISSN: 1130-9717
Ano de publicación: 2016
Número: 23
Páxinas: 17
Tipo: Artigo
Outras publicacións en: NACC: Nova acta científica compostelana. Bioloxía
Resumo
In this essay I discuss the relationship between the genocentric view of life and two ancient attitudes: the belief in an immaterial principle organizer of matter and the patriarchal interpretation of that principle. This relationship suggests that the primacy of the causal role of genes in explaining the phenotype is another consequence of an ancient cultural tradition rooted in objective idealism. However, the identification of the male with an external force acting on matter, which is identified with the feminine, is an idea that probably dates back to the Neolithic.