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...liberal view that believes we can make people better simply by improving their environment." After days given to pondering sociobiological research and theories with Reporter-Researcher Gaye Mclntosh, Leo observes: "Spend enough time with it and you'll be looking at your own behavior the way Konrad Lorenz looks at geese...
Many recent theorists?such as Nobel-prizewinning Ethologist Konrad Lorenz and Scots Biologist V.C. Wynne-Edwards?have focused on the group or species as the primary unit of selection. Darwin wrote that it was the individual organism. But Sociobiologists believe it is the genes themselves that conduct the life-or-death evolutionary struggle. This gene-based view of life is compatible with a finding made independently by researchers in a widely divergent branch of science. Rutgers Biochemist George Pieczenik has discovered patterns in DNA coding that he sees as evidence of selection occurring at the molecular level (TIME, April...
...previously been arrested for demonstrating in a courtroom against prison conditions for convicted terrorists. Becker was a professional revolutionary. First jailed in 1972 for helping to bomb a British boating club in West Berlin, she was one of five imprisoned terrorists released in exchange for kidnaped politician Peter Lorenz, who was abducted in 1975 while running for mayor in Berlin. Flown to the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen by the Bonn government, Becker reportedly took courses in hijacking and other terrorist skills at a training camp run by the Marxist, militantly anti-Israel Popular Front for the Liberation...
...this book reveals relatively little of Lorenz himself. Nisbett fails, for example, to follow up on a particularly tantalizing tidbit of information about Lorenz's pragmatism. When Doctoral Student Lorenz realized that his examiner had not read his thesis and was firmly committed to existing ideas, the founder of ethology smoothly switched tracks and gave the answers that were expected of him. Nor does Nisbett discuss Lorenz's now regretted papers that appeared, in the early 1940s, to support Nazi race theories...
Nisbett's problem is at least partially understandable: Lorenz, an impressive-looking figure at 73, is not only alive and well but perfectly capable of raising quite a ruckus over any statements, in this book or others, that offend either his sensibilities or his sense of moral purpose...