Word: sociobiologist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Robert L. Trivers, the sociobiologist who left Harvard two years ago to become professor of biology at the University of California at Santa Cruz, joined the Black Panther Party last month...
...least one passage, Chavkin even distorts the truth in his quest for muck to rake, twisting the much-misrepresented ideas of sociobiologist E.O. Wilson, to give himself a target for an assault on determinism. Chavkin writes, "Wilson's contention is that it is the genes and not cultural evolution or socioeconomics or political environment that are responsible for human behavior." In fact, Wilson simply says that genes play a large, but not solo, role in shaping human behavior; he would hardly be happy with Chavkin's characterization of his ideas...
...social behavior of other species, be they ants, herring gulls or chimpanzees, we may learn something which is applicable to ourselves. Sociobiology is more of a pure scientific discipline than Emmerich allows for. The elitist politics are injected by him, not DeVore, Wilson, Trivers or any other serious sociobiologist. In fact, sociobiology stresses the cross cultural unity of mankind and of "human nature." Last year Emmerich was burning books, this year he's shooting at lecterns. He has twice demonstrated his distate for sociobiology, but he has yet to show us he knows anything about it. --John Wenzel...
...burning question which we are all trying to answer, including the sociobiologist yarn spinners, is: Will the human species be doomed to destroy itself...
...vast majority of species, does the male aggressively pursue the female, instead of the other way round? According to Sociobiologist Robert Trivers, the sex that invests more is a "limiting resource." In other words, because women do most of the work to bring children into the world, they are in the position of sellers in a scarce market, and men must line up to buy. This principle explains the natural evolution of what DeVore and his colleague Joseph Popp have called "prostitution behavior" in higher species. A female chimp in estrus will use a sexual come-on to get more...