Word: chapterful
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Dawkins is aware of this and occaisionally in the book he makes half-hearted apologies to his academic peers, writing that his analogies shouldn't be taken "too seriously." But this does little good when chapter after chapter illustrates the inherent "selfishness" of genes and the organisms they "control." By implication, this can be read as a simple justification of inequality and cut-throat competition in society...
...there must be complex genetic traits for altruism and aggression in human beings is going one step too far, too soon. The problem with The Selfish Gene is that it plays around with a subject which is controversial enough when dealt with honestly and factually. When, in the last chapter, Dawkins finally acknowledges that humans can "rebel" against their "selfish" genes, he fails to erase the overwhelming implications of the preceding ten chapters, and the result is a biased and inaccurate portrait of human life...
...Boston chapter of the Committee Against Racism (CAR) held a meeting yesterday to denounce what they called determinist theories like those in the book, "Sociobiology" by E.O. Wilson, professor of Zoology...
Boston University's Board of Trustees has refused to engage in collective bargaining with the university's chapter of the American Association of University Professors, since its formation 17 months...
...Marx had known about the automobile, he would have written another chapter. Marx would have said a capitalistic economy could not survive without a war or the automobile," McCarthy said...