Word: evolutionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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So while the proposal does, as one student member of the committee suggests, constitute the "next step in the evolution of dealing with minority students' problems," it is far from the final step. The same student warns that the report could be turned into something very different from what the...
His goals appear purely academic: to search for the biological universals of human nature that may provide an explanation for human social evolution. Wilson means to bring the science of biology into conjunction with anthropology, psychology and sociology to provide a new, broader foundation for the social sciences.
WILSON's Sociobiology: The New Synthesis is a scientific textbook. It is technical, detailed and precise, packed with specific examples of insect and animal behavior. As an ambitious comparative and evolutionary study, it received almost universal acclaim as a significant contribution to biological science. The neophyte will see no cause...
A third group attacks sociobiology as scientism. They believe that Wilson has overextended the powers of science into areas where it has no business treading. They hold that human behavior and culture can never be reduced to biological terms, and that Wilson's attempt is impotent because culture must be...
Late in the movie, it appears that director and screenwriter headed at cross purposes, perhaps the reason for Chayefsky's bail out. Russell set out to make a hymn to psychological experimentation, pushing back the borders of reality to find a new, higher truth by getting stoned. Chayefsky, on the...