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...THIS TYPE of writing that discredits The Selfish Gene. Dawkins gives the impression throughout the book that he is simply a nice zoologist who is attempting to simplify complex scientific data so more people can understand and appreciate it. But then he goes off on wild tangents, stringing together stupid analogies and speculating about the similarities between purine molecules and some futuristic society in Andromeda out of a science fiction novel he happened to find interesting. This type of rambling based on half-baked ideas that should have been kept in the oven doesn't exactly constitute the stuff...
Male Dominance. Wilson, a Harvard zoologist, may not yet have achieved the stature of a Darwin, a Marx or a Freud. But he and his colleagues are sending the same kind of shock waves through the academic community. Sociobiology is the study of the biological basis for social behavior in every species; its practitioners believe that some-and perhaps much-of human behavior is genetically determined. It is not a message that many academics want to hear. Says Harvard's Richard Lewontin, an evolutionary biologist: "This is fundamentally a very conservative world view, which serves the very important function...
Afternoon Heat. While probing differences between wild-and factory-bred flies, Zoologist Guy L. Bush and Biochemist G. Barrie Kitto of the University of Texas, with Zoologist Raymond W. Neck of the Texas parks and wildlife department, found that the larvae were kept at an unnaturally constant, warm temperature, mainly to speed up growth. Also, young flies were unable to fly around much in their cages. Eventually, the researchers write in Science, a markedly different strain emerged. No longer as vigorous, the male does not become active until the heat of afternoon, whereas his wild brethren are busy impregnating females...
...zoologist even suggested the "head" was that of a Highland steer that had drowned in the lake. One skeptic, interviewed on British television, speculated that the head was a shot of a scuba diver wearing his breathing apparatus backward. A London paper noted that Nessie's proposed scientific name, Nessiteras rhombopteryx, is an anagram for "monster hoax by Sir Peter S."-a possible reference to Nessie Supporter Sir Peter Scott, who co-authored the Nature article with Rines...
Pamela Cook, a post-doc at Harvard, introduced Temple-Smith to the informal audience of 20 by calling the platypus a zoologist's "favorite animal of all animals," and Temple-Smith himself allowed that the platypus is "weird". Not nearly enough study has been done on the platypus, he said, largely because it is so difficult to keep in captivity. The biggest work on the animal is a troglodytic volume produced forty years ago by Harry Burrell, and it is an elementary natural history of the platypus. Temple-Smith's own work has been done on the streams and backwaters...