And some evolutionary explanations that seemed dubious then now seem just silly - I am thinking of one that I dimly recall on the evolutionary advantages of joining a sorority to improve your reproductive fitness.īut it was an exciting time to study evolutionary biology, and it certainly left me with a sense of the intellectual challenge of considering how the long time frame of human evolutionary change might or might not explain modern human patterns and problems. ![]() There were battles over notions that seemed radical back then but are now widely accepted - for example, that many aspects of behavior, personality and temperament are strongly affected by genetic tendencies. Wilson published “Sociobiology: The New Synthesis,” and controversial ideas about health, biology and behavior were fought out in some of my college biology classes. ![]() ![]() I was an undergraduate in 1975, when E.O.
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