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Beating a Dead Monkey
Sperling, Susan | November 28, 1994 issue

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The article discusses three books on evolutionary biology. "The Moral Animal," by Robert Wright; "Race, Evolution and Behavior," by J. Philippe Rushton; "The Evolution of Racism: Human differences and the Use and Abuse of Science," by Pat Shipman. This is a great pity, for a sophisticated and robust biology, one that elucidates the complex interactions between organisms and their developmental environments, has much to offer social theory. As long as books such as these misrepresent evolutionary biology, however, most responsible scholars will avoid the subject and the public will continue to be fed and to accept a racist science.

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BOOKS; MORAL Animal, The (Book); RACE, Evolution & Behavior: A Life History Perspective, A (Book); EVOLUTION of Racism, The (Book); WRIGHT, Robert; RUSHTON, J. Philippe; SHIPMAN, Pat; RACISM
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