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Emmerich claims that Dawkins "can't admit that cultural and environmental factors also affect behavior." Hogwash--Dawkins would hardly be qualified to lecture at Oxford if he were that stupid. His book is not about culture--it is about natural selection and genetic behaviorism. He is not denying the existence of human culture, he is simply discussing a factor which goes into the making of culture. Admittedly, he is giving this factor a far greater causal role than it has ever been credited with in the past. But isn't this what scientific debate is all about? Many folks were...
...Dawkins," writes Emmerich, "has gotten too wrapped up in his theories of genetic determinism to admit that cultural and environmental influences also affect behavior" and says that it is not until the last chapter that Dawkins "finally acknowledges that humans can 'rebel' against their 'selfish genes'." But, on page three, Dawkins states...
...teaching is a highly personal discipline, the task force bent over backwards to avoid hurting feelings. But as a result of the "kid gloves" approach, its report, released in February, offers eight weak and rather obvious recommendations to the Faculty, each designed to provide more incentives for teaching, to affect changes to improve conditions for teaching and to create means by which Faculty members can improve teaching skills...
...place for this kind of journal. It's a far more entertaining purveyor of little-known facts than the Guinness Book of Records. Its readers' questions and answer section tells you all about building and living in tepees with the notable caution. "The shape of the structure itself may affect your physical and mental condition and your lifestyle in general". Or, extra! Wicked Govt.-Appointed Hopi Tribal Council has Resolved to Turn the Hopi Homeland over to the Peabody Coal Co. for Strip Mining for $5 million and there are endangered butterflies and laetrile-smugglers (laetrile is a banned anti...
Brad Behrman '78, a member of CUE, said yesterday he thinks it is "doubtful" that the Faculty Council will take action on the elite concentration issue "soon enough to affect the Class of '80," which will make official concentration choices later this mont...