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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other claims by proponents of sociobiology have made it one of the most inflammatory doctrines ta emerge from the campuses in decades. Since 1975, when Harvard Zoologist Edward Wilson's mammoth 700-page book Sociobiology: The New Synthesis brought the new science to public attention, the controversy has spread beyond Harvard?where it originated?dividing faculty departments and disrupting academic conventions. Angry opponents denounce "soso biology" as reactionary political doctrine disguised as science. Their fear: it may be used to show that some races are inferior, that male dominance over women is natural and that social progress is impossible because...
Indeed, few academic theories have spread so fast and with so little hard proof. Apart from the Hamilton-Trivers work on altruism, there has been little to impress the skeptics, and no hard evidence has been presented to show that genes influence human cultural behavior. The power of sociobiology comes from its astonishing promise to link the physical sciences with the human sciences and to bring all behavior from Drosophila to Homo sapiens under one great discipline...
...that his work in sociobiology was the reason. It was a surprising move that Trivers interpreted as an invitation to leave the university?which he plans to do. Still he insists: "I don't think they will be successful in stopping me or slowing down the work. It has spread too far, to too many people, and to far too many studies." Indeed, sociobiology is establishing itself as part of the scientific spectrum. In June, for example, academics from around the nation gathered at San Francisco State University for a two-day meeting on the implications of sociobiology...
Barre's law has also spread to West...
...year. She then got some friends to put up $15,000 for a land deal in Spain; seven months later, they were paid back $26,325-a 75.5% profit. Says she: "It was a lark-it was like Monopoly money." As word of Adela's business acumen spread, people clamored to invest in her ventures, which until recently she ran from her home with the aid of two staffers, a middle-aged English secretary and a young college graduate. At first, most investors continued to do well, and some have volunteered to testify on her behalf. But later others...