Defenders of the truth : the sociobiology debate

By U. Segerstrale. 2001

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Sense and Nonsense: Evolutionary perspectives on human behaviour (2002, background): “For Lewontin, science had to be as correct as possible because mistaken scientific theories lent themselves to political abuse (Segerstråle, 2000), a belief which, as we saw in the previous chapter, can find justification in the history of using evolution to interpret humanity.”
The Ape That Thought It Was a Peacock: Does Evolutionary Psychology Exaggerate Human Sex Differences? (2013, background): “With the popularization of sociobiology in the 1970s (Dawkins, 1976; Wilson, 1975), however, evolutionary approaches to human behavior became the locus of an academic culture war between biologically minded thinkers and advocates of the traditional social science model (Segerstråle, 2000).”
The g‐factor of international cognitive ability comparisons: the homogeneity of results in PISA, TIMSS, PIRLS and IQ‐tests across nations (2007, background): “Cognitive ability research at the social and macro-social level has always been confronted with problems and pressures (see controversies around Jensen, Herrnstein & Murray, Rushton, Vanhanen; e.g. Segerstråle, 2000; Nyborg, 2003; Rindermann, 2006b).”
How Biology Became Social, and What it Means for Social Theory (2014, background): “It was a paradigm shift (Segerstråle, 2001): organisms started to be conceived as vehicles for genes selfishly competing to maximize their reproductive strength.”