On Sat, 25 Jul 1998, Andrew Wayne Austin wrote:
> Hitler was a sociobiologist. And mainstream sociobiologists are continuing
> his work....
Ummm... this is overkill. I'm not especially sold on sociobiology
myself-- a lot of it seems pretty damned trivial, and a lot of it
isn't much deeper than arm chair speculation-- but the original
notion, of applying up-to-date evolutionary biology to humans (and
other animals), was a worthwhile one, and there are perfectly
respectable people working in the field-- for example, Laura Betzig
and Sandra Hrdy. It's a method of analysis, not an ideological
program, after all.
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Mike Shupp
California State University, Northridge
Graduate Student, Dept. of Anthropology
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