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...would rather be a carpenter than a scientist, and if it weren't for all the benefits that come with my position, I would not be here," Richard C. Lewontin '50, professor of Biology and Agassiz Professor of Zoology said to 25 students in the Freshman Union yesterday...
...University of Chicago Anthropologist Marshall Sahlins dismisses sociobiology as "genetic capitalism"?an attempt to defend the current structures of Western society as natural and inevitable. Jerome Schneewind, a philosopher at Manhattan's Hunter College, calls it "mushy metaphor . . . a souped-up version of Hobbes." Harvard Evolutionary Biologist Richard Lewontin is earthier; he thinks sociobiology is "bullshit...
...Against Racism has called sociobiology "dangerously racist." The committee also charged that the new science would give comfort to the supporters of Psychologist Arthur Jensen, a leading proponent of another controversial theory: that racial differences in IQs have a genetic basis. Wilson angrily called that attack "slander," and even Lewontin came to his defense, conceding that "sociobiology is not a racist doctrine." But he added, "Any kind of genetic determinism can and does feed other kinds, including the belief that some races are superior to others...
Richard C. Lewontin--Geological Lecture Hall...
...title of Lewontin's lecture on May 17 will be "Genetic Diversity in Humans and Other Animals." This could be a boring speech if delivered by most biologist s|but|it should bring out all of the biases, brilliant insights and radical perspectives for which Lewontin is known. If you have heard him speak before, the talk will be nothing special but if you have not taken one of his courses, bring your dollar to the Geological Lecture Hall on Oxford...