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... como a sociobiologia pretende explicar tudo a partir do conceito de evolução e de como essa tendência é abusiva e sem fundamentos. Ainda, como algumas ciências se comportam como nações com intuitos imperialistas, digo eu.

Gould, a Harvard paleontologist and a popular-science writer, who died in 2002, was taking aim mainly at the rising ambitions of sociobiology. He had no argument with its work on bees, wasps, and ants, he said. But linking the behavior of humans to their evolutionary past was fraught with perils, not least because of the difficulty of disentangling culture and biology. Gould saw no prospect that sociobiology would achieve its grandest aim: a “reduction” of the human sciences to Darwinian theory

This was no straw man. The previous year, Robert Trivers, a founder of the discipline, told Timethat, “sooner or later, political science, law, economics, psychology, psychiatry, and anthropology will all be branches of sociobiology.” The sociobiologists believed that the concept of natural selection was a key that would unlock all the sciences of man, by revealing the evolutionary origins of behavior.

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