Word: lewtontin
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Dates: during 1984-1984
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...years, the authors have been ardent opponents of anti-egalitarian trends in science. Lewtontin, a professor of Biology at Harvard and a prominent evolutionary geneticist, has been particularly outspoken in his anti-sociobiology crusade. Rose, neurobiology professor at the Open University in England, has written on the social implications of biological and psychological research. Kamin, a professor of psychology at Princeton University, uncovered one of the most fraudulent scientific studies ever conducted: Sir Cyril Burt's experiments on intelligence...
After refuting the pure biochemical basis for schizophrenia, the classic mental disorder that has been so often studied by biochemists and psychobiologists, the authors arrive at the central grist for their mill: sociobiology. In fact, at times, Not in Our Genes seems like a diatribe against Lewtontin's ideological opponent Edward O. Wilson. Quoting Wilson repeatedly. Lewontin points to the entomologist as the prototypical biological determinist...
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