The Racialization of Killer Whales: An Application of Gene-Culture Coevolutionary Theory
An expanding body of research aims to identify culture in cetaceans, often positing killer whales as an exemplar species. To this end, gene-culture coevolutionary theory provides a conceptual language with which whales are discussed in raciological terms. It renders killer whale ecotypes as discrete...
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crcenteros:10.31235/osf.io/jfm8u 2024-05-19T07:43:26+00:00 The Racialization of Killer Whales: An Application of Gene-Culture Coevolutionary Theory Golding, David 2024 http://dx.doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/jfm8u unknown Center for Open Science https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/legalcode posted-content 2024 crcenteros https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/jfm8u 2024-04-25T06:52:06Z An expanding body of research aims to identify culture in cetaceans, often positing killer whales as an exemplar species. To this end, gene-culture coevolutionary theory provides a conceptual language with which whales are discussed in raciological terms. It renders killer whale ecotypes as discrete cultures that are intrinsically xenophobic and evolutionarily divergent. Such research on whale culture intends to substantiate theories of divergent natural selection between human cultures as well. This effort furthers the essentialism, simultaneously biological and cultural, that has long impelled colonial technoscientific projects of racial typologization. The exchange between the raciologies of humans and killer whales is facilitated by the infrahumanizing frameworks of gene-culture coevolutionary theory that locate whale populations alongside indigenous peoples on a spectrum of cultural simplicity and complexity. At this convergence of the animal and the human, gene-culture coevolutionary theory posits indigenous peoples and killer whales as evidence for social Darwinist theories that dehistoricize and naturalize intercultural conflict and ethnicization. The extension of raciology beyond the human species signals an urgent need to decolonize the biological sciences. Other/Unknown Material Killer Whale Killer whale COS Center for Open Science |
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An expanding body of research aims to identify culture in cetaceans, often positing killer whales as an exemplar species. To this end, gene-culture coevolutionary theory provides a conceptual language with which whales are discussed in raciological terms. It renders killer whale ecotypes as discrete cultures that are intrinsically xenophobic and evolutionarily divergent. Such research on whale culture intends to substantiate theories of divergent natural selection between human cultures as well. This effort furthers the essentialism, simultaneously biological and cultural, that has long impelled colonial technoscientific projects of racial typologization. The exchange between the raciologies of humans and killer whales is facilitated by the infrahumanizing frameworks of gene-culture coevolutionary theory that locate whale populations alongside indigenous peoples on a spectrum of cultural simplicity and complexity. At this convergence of the animal and the human, gene-culture coevolutionary theory posits indigenous peoples and killer whales as evidence for social Darwinist theories that dehistoricize and naturalize intercultural conflict and ethnicization. The extension of raciology beyond the human species signals an urgent need to decolonize the biological sciences. |
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The Racialization of Killer Whales: An Application of Gene-Culture Coevolutionary Theory |
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The Racialization of Killer Whales: An Application of Gene-Culture Coevolutionary Theory |
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The Racialization of Killer Whales: An Application of Gene-Culture Coevolutionary Theory |
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The Racialization of Killer Whales: An Application of Gene-Culture Coevolutionary Theory |
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The Racialization of Killer Whales: An Application of Gene-Culture Coevolutionary Theory |
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racialization of killer whales: an application of gene-culture coevolutionary theory |
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