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...SCIENTISTS WOULD tackle the subject of this book "Why we are what we are, why we do what we do, why we feel what we feel." And probably fewer could have dealt with it as successfully as Harvard anthropology professor Melvin Konner has in The Tangled Wing...
...Konner calls his book "a treatise on the biology of the emotions," but the book is really concerned with the biological basis of behavior The Tangled Wing aims for that same elusive understanding as E O Wilson's On Human Nature, Carl Sagan's The Dragons of Eden, and Robert Andrey's The Territorial Imperative, and it touches on the subjects of many other less sweeping books which have tried to solve the age-old debate between "nature" and "nurture...
...graceful, flowing prose, Konner sides with neither. Instead, he shows clear impatience with those who are content to deal with human behavior as a determinate product of the two distinct forces, heredity or environment, or some set mix of the two. He sees the so called "nature nurture" mix as an infinitely complex relationship. "Now that the discussion of heredity versus environment has transcended the 'versus,' passing beyond the question. Which and the only slightly less useful question. How much to the mature question. How we must prepare ourselves to face the fact that this last is not one question...
Harvard winners include John Womack Jr. '59, professor of History: William A. Graham Jr. '70, associate professor of Islamic Religion: Stanley J. Tambiah, professor of Anthropology: Robert P. Bergman, associate professor of Fine Arts: David Dressler, lecturer on Biochemistry and Biology: Melvin Joel Konner, associate professor of Biological Anthropology: Joel Porte. professor of English and American Literature: Raymond Siever, professor of Geology; Paul Starr, assistant professor of Sociology: Tison Street, associate professor of Music; and Ernest E. Williams, professor of Biology...
...Melvin Konner, associate professor of Anthropology, who did not see the film, said generally African clitoridectomies are a topic "of clear interest to people who are studying the range of human activity." This "is certainly legitimate material for scholarly study," he added...