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With his usual humorous pessimism on the degeneracy of the human species, Earnest A. Hooton, professor of Anthropology and author of several popular books, addressed the American College of Physicians last night at the Hotel Statler in Boston...
There are still a few fundamentalists left who repudiate the doctrine that men and apes evolved from a common primate stock. Harvard's Earnest Albert Hooton thinks the shoe should be on the other foot. "Any respectable ape," he writes, ''would repudiate the imputation of a common ancestry with man." Much publicized, highly controversial Anthropologist Hooton has a high regard for gorillas, chimpanzees, orangutans, etc.; an increasingly low regard for the social and biological status of man. Last week the dismal state of humanity lifted his talent for caustic castigation to new heights...
...Much has Hooton said on the evolutionary decay of modern man, on the biological factor in crime, but this is his fullest survey to date of the biology- &-behavior problem in general. He trades hard punches with social scientists, or at least with extreme behaviorists among them who seem to think that one human being would behave as well as another if their environments were equal. Hooton's contention: since feeblemindedness can be inherited, why not feeble morality? A favorite phrase of his is "moral imbecile...
...this may seem elementary, but when Hooton steps over the threshold to humanity he finds that tender-minded idealists suddenly throw the biological basis of behavior right out the window. They cannot deny that bodily differences are inherited, so they simply put body and mind in separate compartments. "This," says Hooton, "is the human declaration of independence. It has produced a social schizophrenia which is making a madhouse of civilization...
...Hooton declares that inherited temperamental differences in animals are admitted by most scientists, but that when they stop over the threshold to humanity, these tender-minded, idealists suddenly throw the biological basis of behavior right out of the window...