Stephen Jay Gould: This View of Life
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The Creationism Debate
Gould says sociobiology as applied to people has specious underpinnings and provides racists and sexist a scientific justification for their claims of superiority in 1981 Gould wrote the mismeasure of man to refute the notion of biological determinism it was a bestseller and won the national book critics circle award but it was savaged in the scientific journals. "I'm not good at analytical thinking at working my way through deductive sequences i never can figure out agatha christie mysteries because she writes in that mode nor sure all combs is the prototype"
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