"biologize" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2030 October 7, Leslie Feinberg, “Can a homosexual be a member of the Communist Party?”, in Workers World",
          "text": "In the \"nature vs. nurture\" scientific debate, however, those seeking a biological explanation for social phenomena were losing the ideological battle. According to Healey, a political struggle opened up against \"biologizing\" scientists, charging that to search for the basis of social ills in individual biology was a form of Menshevik idealism.",
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          "ref": "2009, Merrill Singer, Introduction to Syndemics, page 139",
          "text": "Most important with regard to the healing capacity of the king's touch, human bodies have the ability to biologize experience. They have the capacity to incorporate or embody events as they are experienced[…]",
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          "ref": "2011, Edward Slingerland, Mark Collard, Creating Consilience, page 133",
          "text": "Consequently, social scientists at turns reify institutions, biologize social categories, anthropomorphize offices, and mentalize corporate groups.",
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        "To make biological; to assimilate into a biological framework or context."
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        "(transitive) To make biological; to assimilate into a biological framework or context."
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          "word": "biologization"
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          "word": "biologizować"
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  "word": "biologize"
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