Word: montagu
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...home minding the kids and gathering vegetables...and a particular emphasis on warfare and the salutary advantages of genocide. But these arguments have arisen before and have been strongly rebutted both on the basis of historical and anthropological studies. (See for instance A. Alland, The Human Imperative or M.F.A. Montagu, Man and Agression...
This statement attempts to tie Wilson's argument to that of Robert Ardrey, who is extensively and appropriately criticized in the two cited works. (Montagu is actually the editor, not the writer, of Man and Aggression.) In fact the only thing Wilson and Ardrey have in common is that both authors have commented on the evidence for human evolution published by biological and physical anthropologists, paleontologists and archeologists. Let's examine the critics' claims point by point...
Shockley and Innis have debated only once, on the NBC-TV Tomorrow show last December. They were scheduled to debate at Princeton University in December, but Innis refused to speak and Shockley debated Ashley Montagu, a Rutgers University professor of anthropology, instead...
Shockley yesterday challenged the presidents of Yale, Princeton and Dartmouth, all of whom he said have "derogated" his views, to debate him. THE SHOCKLEY-INNIS SCORECARD Debates Scheduled Shockley Innis Notes Harvard, October 1973 CANCELLED Tomorrow Show, December 1973 * * Princeton, December 1973 * Cancelled Debated Montagu David Susskind, December 1973 * Not Invited Debated Poussaint Yale, March 1974 CANCELLED
...Montagu called Shockley a racist--a charge Shockley denied, saying he is a "raceologist"--because "a racist is one who believes that there are significant biological differences in race that should determine sociological differences...