One of the most influential and cherished biologists of the 20th century. The father of Sociobiology.

I find this article a total vindication of the concerns of Richard Lewontin and Stephen Jay Gould, that the strains of biological determinism alive and well in the genetics field is a form of neo-eugenics in molecular biology's clothing.

And one final thought: when you see his proposals to turn "half the world into a nature preserve," it begs the question: whose half?

  • duderium [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Knew this dude was no good when he said that communism was only possible for ants and when his life story was curiously bereft of political activism despite the fact that he lived through the Civil Rights movement.