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...shall adjourn until Soc Sci 160," said one student to two others as they departed before the lights went down on those first slides...
...Sci 160. Nonverbal Communication...
Most of the other criticism against Davis stressed the racial implications of his articles. There was a reason for this, and even in retrospect a good one. It has to do with statements Davis had made linking genetics and heredity. Davis, who teaches Nat Sci 37, "Evolution, Genetics and Society," only goes halfway in a theory of biological determinism: He says there is no way to statistically prove difference in intelligence. But he has made pronouncements to the effect that the separation of gene pools of the races down through the years may cause genetic differences...
...just the best there is" is the most simple and direct explanation author-professors have offered when asked why they use their own texts. If numbers sold are any mark of quality when it comes to textbooks, the assumption may not be as presumptuous as it sounds. The Soc Sci 11 textbook "East Asian Civilization," for example, co-authored by Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor, Albert Craig, professor of Japanese History, and John K. Fairbank '29, Higginson Professor of History, was written for the course about 20 years ago when, as Reischauer says, "We were killing ourselves to teach...
Professor of Zoology Edward O. Wilson's Biology I and Nat Sci 5 textbook, "Life on Earth," never quite made it to the top of the charts, but was at one time the second most popular basic biology textbook, used by most of the Ivy League. The most popular one, Wilson says, is too elementary and weak in its treatment of evolutionary theory...