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...Died. Theodosius Dobzhansky, 75, Russian-born geneticist whose work at U.S. universities and research institutes earned world acclaim; of a heart attack; in Davis, Calif. Dobzhansky, who came to the U.S. as a student and chose to remain when the spurious environmental doctrines of Stalin's pet geneticist, T.D. Lysenko, became Communist dogma, was best known for works such as Genetic Diversity and Human Equality and Heredity and the Nature...
Herrnstein sees this vision as the coming shape of America. Not so Geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky of the University of California at Davis. In a new book, Genetic Diversity and Human Equality, Dobzhansky agrees with Herrnstein that the present trend toward making people's environments-and educations -equal will cause hereditary differences to loom larger. And IQs are indeed largely inheritable, Dobzhansky says, citing 50 independent studies in eight different countries. But even if intelligent people intermarry and have intelligent children, the IQ is a narrow concept and there are many other traits that make people successful or unsuccessful. Therefore...
...noblest impulses are apt to offend against nature. While improved medical care assures the survival and reproduction of those with genetically caused mental and physical defects, it also ensures that an increasingly larger percentage of the population will be heir to these illnesses in years to come. Geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky succinctly expresses the ethical dilemma. "If we enable the weak and the deformed to live and to propagate their kind," he says, "we face the prospect of a genetic twilight. But if we let them die or suffer when we can save or help them, we face the certainty...
...consider such issues, Roman Catholic Lay Theologian Daniel Callahan and a number of like-minded ethicists and scientists have set up the Institute of Society, Ethics and the Life Sciences. Among the 70 members are Geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky, Psychiatrist Willard Gaylin, Theologian John C. Bennett, and U.S. Senator Walter F. Mondale of Minnesota, who three years ago introduced a bill to establish an interdisciplinary committee to examine new scientific problems. It did not pass, but Mondale is trying again this year. "There may still be time," he says, "to establish some ground rules...
...scientist who is closer to the pertinent field put it in less provocative terms. "The idea that human races differ in adaptively significant traits is emotionally repugnant to some people," wrote Geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky in Mankind Evolving. "Any inquiry into this matter is felt to be dangerous, lest it vindicate race prejudice." Undeniably, racial prejudice is social or cultural in origin rather than biological, and it is understandable that anthropologists, who hesitate to make value judgments on the basis of biological fact, would hesitate also to enter what is fundamentally a sociological-and highly emotional-controversy. Anthropologist Morton Fried says...