Word: lewontin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vote no would be to condone U.S. funding of oppression and armed violence against civilians and to deny an entire people their right to determine their destiny. Justice demands we vote yes on Question 5. We urge everyone to do so. Ruth Hubbard Richard Lewontin Everett Mendelsohn George Wald
...schizophrenia, the classic mental disorder that has been so often studied by biochemists and psychobiologists, the authors arrive at the central grist for their mill: sociobiology. In fact, at times, Not in Our Genes seems like a diatribe against Lewtontin's ideological opponent Edward O. Wilson. Quoting Wilson repeatedly. Lewontin points to the entomologist as the prototypical biological determinist...
These pointed accusations are natural, considering that Lewontin and Wilson represent completely opposite points of view. Lewontin and his co-authors carefully choose the most extreme and controversial claims of E.O. Wilson, and choose to ignore his many statements qualifying the power of genes in controlling genetic inheritance...
Perhaps there is more of a middle ground than Lewontin, Rose, and Kamin realize. The dialectical interaction between organisms and their environment proposed by the authors might be more similar to Wilson's concepts of heritability than the authors would like to acknowledge...
Undoubtedly, the controversy will rage on, but Lewontin and his co-authors have done an excellent job of criticizing the sociobiological point of view. Not in Our Genes is an entertaining and informative critique of the too-often trumpeted cause of genetic determinism...