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Except for the tone of the entire article, which I found to be quite negative and void of a stabilizing "scientific" analysis, there were sparks of intuition and awareness concerning Irven DeVore's lecture. True, Professor DeVore did concentrate quite heavily on non-human animals in his explication of social behavior...
...PARADOX: At a lecture last week billed as the "Evolution of Human Behavior," Irven Devore said little about homo sapiens until the last minutes of his talk. A newcomer to "sociobiology" would have been befuddled by pictures of elephants, apes and impalas appearing on the screen above Devore's head, an advertised lecture on human behavior sounded more like an interesting but insignificant discourse on zoology...
...Males are basically a breeding experiment run by females," Irven Devore, professor of Anthropology, said last night as a part of his talk on the origin of human behavior...
...male bluster works only if females allow it to work. Among many monogamous birds, a female will mate only with a male willing to build nests before copulating. Presumably, human females have much more power to breed machismo out of the population. At cocktail parties, women often ask Anthropologist Irven DeVore when men will give up machismo. His immodest-but sociobiologically correct-reply: when women like you stop selecting high-success, strutting men like me. "Males," says DeVore, "are a vast breeding experiment run by females...
...Irven DeVore, Professor of Anthropology, said this week he is seeking an injuction against the Canadian producers of the film for "lifting nine, ten or 11 scenes" from a film...