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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...studying not only humans but also the 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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: One More Time | 4/20/1978 | See Source »

...Lucy Wilson Benson Under Secretary of State for Security Assistance, Science and Technology Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 17, 1978 | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

...Mike Wilson Jackson, Mich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 17, 1978 | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

Stan Vinson, a crack middle-distance runner, no longer has to wash dishes for a living. Now working for Wilson Sporting Goods Co., Vinson compiled a perfect indoor season this year, winning his 600-yd. race in ten straight track meets and sprinting off with the A.A.U. National Indoor Championships. Looking ahead to the outdoor season, Vinson says of his rejuvenation: "It's happening, I'm convinced, because I can concentrate on the two things that are most important to me, running and a career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Jobs for Jocks | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

...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 said. It has been brought tc an international audience by Harvard professor E.O. Wilson's book Sociobiology. It explains the behavior of all living creatures in terms of natural selection and competition of genes...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: Darwin Vulgarized | 4/13/1978 | See Source »

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