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The suggestion provoked a furious reaction: In Wilson’s words, ‘the most tumultous controversy of the 1970s. a group of Boston scientists, researchers and students -- included Richard Lewonstin and Stephen Jay Gould, both colleagues of Wilson at Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology -- formed the Sociobiology Study Group, noting in the ‘New York Review’ of Books that theories which attempted to establish a biological foundation of social behaviour were ‘an important basis . . . for eugenic policies which led to the establishment of gas chambers in Nazi Germany’; the American Anthropological Association, in a move which Time magazine linkened the Catholic Church’s denunciation of Galileo, debated a motion to censure sociobiology on the grounds that it was ‘an attempt to justify genetically the sexist, racist and elitist status quo in human society’; and protesters from the international Committee against Racism dumped a pitcher of ice water over Wilson himself at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in early 1978
Wilson’s opponents were motivated by explicitly moral and political commitments. The Sociobiology Study Group was affiliated to an organization called Science for the People, which was founded in the 1960s to challenge the kinds of science it considered politically dangerous. Lewontin and Gould, both of whom supported the organization’s wider aims, considered themselves to be working in the tradition of Marxist theory…… ~ Page 94/95
The optimistic prospect for sociobiology can be summarized briefly as follows. In spite of the phylogenetic remoteness of vertebrates and insects and the basic distinction between their respective personal and impersonal systems of communication, these two groups of animals have evolved social behaviors that are similar to, in degree of complexity and convergent in many important details. This fact conveys a special promise that ociobiology can eventually be derived from the first principle of population and behavioral biology and developed into a single, mature science. The discipline can then be expected to increase our understanding of the unique qualities of social behavior in animals are opposed to those of man. ~ Page 787 "Naturalist" Author E. O. Wilson
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