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By Evelyn Reed

Primatology and prejudice --
Sociobiology and pseudoscience --
An solution to "The Nake Ape" and different books on aggression --
Lionel Riger's "Men in Groups": self-portrait of a woman-hater --
Anthropology and feminism: an alternate of perspectives --
The problem of the matriarchy --
The misconceptions of Claude Levi-Strauss on "The ordinary constructions of Kinship" --
Evolutionism and antievolutionism.

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This is highly misleading. A review of n atu ral history cannot explain anything more th an the precondi­ tions for hum an life. It requires social history and the science of sociology to explain the origin and unique attributes of hum an life and culture. Wilson’s “one science for all” is not a new Sociobiology and Pseudoscience 43 synthesis of sociology and biology but only a new variation of an old theme—biologism—as a replacement for the scientific under­ standing of society. A Crude B iologizer Like other biologizers, Wilson used modem class and capitalist terms to describe anim al and insect life.

Wheeler was imbued with good intentions. He singled out the insects, he said, because “they represent N ature’s most startling efforts in communal organization,” and thus had “developed a cooperative communism so complete th a t in comparison the most radical of our bolsheviks are ultraconservative capitalists” (So­ cial Life Am ong the Insects, pp. 5, 8). He appealed for worldwide disarm am ent on the basis th a t if such “organic cooperativeness” could exist am ong insects it could surely prevail among men.

In central India, roaming langur males som etim es invade established troops, oust the dominant male, and kill all of the infants. . Young black-headed gulls . . are attacked and sometimes killed by other gulls. . The evidence of murder and cannibalism in mammals and other vertebrates has now accumulated to the point that we m ust com­ pletely reverse the conclusion advanced by Konrad Lorenz in his book On Aggression [Sociobiology, p. 246]. According to Wilson, violence am ong anim als of m any species far exceeds th a t am ong hum ans in present-day society.

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