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...reflect a deliberate misreading of the book. A recent article on the editorial page of The Crimson compared Wilson to Herbert Spencer and attempted to find him guilty by association. This is purely a sophomoric game, just as it would be to compare a modern geneticist of Richard Lewontin's calibre to Lamarck, or to B.F. Skinner. Even during the late sixties, when the emotional energy behind university politics was far greater, it would have been rare for the Crimson to give so much space to such an ill-informed piece. But in those days the tarring and feathering...
...first error is contained in Wilson's reference to the Sociobiology Study Group as the "Lewontin group." Despite several attempts on our part to correct him, Prof. Wilson persists in the obsession that I somehow lead, dominate, or otherwise manipulate the Study Group. This myth arises out of the general error that characterizes Wilson's entire work of "sociobiology": the belief that he can universalize over all humanity his personal experience of the narrow social interactions of which he is part. While the groups to which E.O. Wilson belongs may indeed be hierarchically organized and may be dominated by persons...
...Paul Samuelson, who in his column in the rabid left periodical, Newsweek, called "Sociobiology just another example of "social Dar-winism." No, Prof. Wilson, it doesn't take a Weather-man to know which way the wind blows, especially when it is a blast of hot air. Richard C. Lewontin '50 Agassiz Professor of Zoology
...Lewontin group of radical environmentalists has attempted to caricature me," says Wilson, referring to his colleague Richard C. Lewontin '50, Agassiz Professor of Biology and a member of Science for the People, which opposes Wilson. "They say that I believe in a rigidly determined system and that I am therefore making a defense of the status quo." Wilson says he thinks that such an attack is levelled at a "straw man"--in fact he believes that only some fraction of human behavior, maybe about 10 per cent, is genetically determined, while all other differences can be culturally explained. He says...
Richard C. Lewontin '50, professor of Biology and one of the course instructors, said yesterday that "It would be silly not to say that a lot of students didn't come for a free...