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Re: Race: real or imagined?

by Richard N Hutchinson

09 December 1999 23:44 UTC


It is one thing to say that "race" has no biological basis, only
sociological.  That's what the evidence shows.  It is another thing to say
that the human species has no biological basis.  Such a statement is
patently absurd, and that is exactly what it is to dismiss all
sociobiological/evolutionary psychological research.  Such a position is
nothing but an ideological knee-jerk reaction.  It is the left-wing
equivalent of scientific creationism, opposing evolutionary theory because
it challenges an ideological dogma.

Not everyone on this list follows lockstep an anti-sociobiological
orthodoxy.  That human behavior is caused partly by biological factors and
partly by sociological factors is the sensible starting point.  It leaves
open all the particulars for empirical research to determine.  To reject
biological causation in toto is to remain willfully ignorant.

RH


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