Word: speciesism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Furthermore, Emmerich "wonders how DeVore can make such a statement [on the narrow cleft between humans and other species] when the human evidence for his theories is simply nonexistent." Evidence is sparse at the moment, and this may be a valid criticism of the paradigm but I am sure Mr...
1. He got the minor details wrong. Our species, Homo sapiens, is never spelled with a lower-case h. Irven DeVore's name is not spelled "DeVore." The overflow crowd in Science Center C was watching on a live video system, not "watching on video tape." And the ovation DeVore...
Devore did not mince words in discussing the implications of these studies. "There is a theoretical structure now," Devore said, "that makes sense out of these studies across an astonishing breadth of species." This theory, which has grown out of the last decade, makes no exceptions for human beings, Devore...
Devore raised few philosophical questions during his lecture. The problem with sociobiology is not its inherent determinism, but its assertion that this determinism is genetic rather than cultural. Devore fails to understand that human beings are qualitatively unique organisms. Without being spiritualistic, psychology and sociology show that the amazing capacity...
Perhaps what is most grating, ultimately, is the indispensability of lawyers in modern society: their skill at decoding the laws written by Congressmen-lawyers or their lawyer aides, at interpreting the regulations promulgated by bureaucrat-lawyers, at helping influence the decisions made by politician-lawyers. The swashbuckling entrepreneur may not...