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I read big portions of Sociobiology while taking a lot of evolutionary biology coursework in college. As stated in the guest post, the book primarily focuses on

I read big portions of Sociobiology while taking a lot of evolutionary biology coursework in college. As stated in the guest post, the book primarily focuses on non-human animals so it's bizarre to me that McLemore is trying to make this about racism in humans without any quotes or anything to tie him to that. It's just an astoundingly poorly written article that SA shouldn't have published for that reason alone. But I suspect they're employing the same strategy that The Washington Post and others use - post intentionally inflammatory guest op-eds and profit from the influx of clicks.

KennyBlanken 5y ago
Your characterization of the book does not square, even remotely, with Wikipedia's. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._O._Wilson#Sociobiology:_The_New_Synthesis,_1975 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._O._Wilson#Sociobiology:_The... Or that of EO Wilson himself: "the hypothesis that human nature has a genetic foundation" https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/98/12/06/specials/wilson-naturalist.html https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/98/12/06/s...
- popcube 5y ago
  he just say human are not differ to animals, but usually department of biology will not concern social biology of human