... The conclusion explores how the idea that humans are biocultural creatures provides the basis for richer accounts of the materialization of norms, the incorporation of affect, and the social and political dimensions of embodied subjectivity. It also proposes that the idea that humans...

... biocultural creatures biopolitics embodied subjectivity biocultural habitats epigenetics environmental reductionism biological reductionism ...

... biological reductionism genes proteins biological agency biological matter biocultural genes science and humanities biocultural creatures ...

... embodiment materialization reproduction epigenetics evolution noncontemporaneity time biocultural creatures ...

... matter materiality new materialisms quantum physics energy carbon biocultural creatures ...

... organismal biology cellular respiration habitat dependence interdependence oxygen biocultural creatures substance ontology ...

... identity boundaries cell membranes cell porosity diffusion environmental reductionism biochemical activity biocultural creatures ...

... Chapter 5 reconsiders whether we can think of living creatures as discrete organisms rather than as merely effects of the environmental relationships and dynamics in which they live. In other words, it reconsiders the ontological “itness” of biocultural creatures. It does so by exploring...

... extrapolates that insight to explain why carbon is the matter that is the basis of life. It also suggests that the idea that matter is energy-under-constraint is helpful in beginning to think about humans as biocultural creatures. matter materiality new materialisms quantum physics energy carbon...

... respiration habitat dependence interdependence oxygen biocultural creatures substance ontology ...

...: the entirety of a living creature is biocultural. biological reductionism genes proteins biological agency biological matter biocultural genes science and humanities biocultural creatures ...

... that this theoretical formulation enables us to imagine how creatures might be embedded in and constituted by their habitats yet also identifiably distinct from them identity boundaries cell membranes cell porosity diffusion environmental reductionism biochemical activity biocultural creatures ...

... and contemporary biology in which organisms and habitats are conceived as mutually constituting. It proposes that an exploration of the critiques in combination with the scientific developments could provide a basis for an alternative theory of humans as biocultural. The chapter addresses several concerns about...