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...publicity to sociobiology. However, the origins of this publicity have nothing to do with SftP, but rather lie in a massive media campaign which was orchestrated around the publication of E.O. Wilson's Sociobiology: The New Synthesis in 1975 and which has continued since. Beginning with a pre-publication front-page article in the New York Times and followed by numerous interviews with Wilson on television and in magazines such as House and Garden, People, OMNI and others, the implications of sociobiology for human social arrangements have been consistently emphasized. Invariably, this publicity has been favorable to sociobiology and even...
Tooby has apparently failed to realize that sociobiological theory not only treats inter-group behavioral differences as genetic, but argues that racism, sexism and xenophobia are the genetic reactions to these differences. It is no accident, then, that a racist organization like the National Front in England would seize upon sociobiology to explain why whites should attack blacks...