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The Triumph of Sociobiology by John Alcock hardcover

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more to your liking?

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Feb bump.

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Ping!

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Something I never thought to add, from 2004. Have a good day, all.

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In fact, the field of human behavior genetics is in a crisis stage, as the great hope of finding behavioral genes with the new DNA technologies has disappointed.

Yep! For a while now scientists and non-scientists alike--often motivated by non-scientific vested interests in molding social policy--have been misusing genetics as a Grand Unified Theory and advancing conclusions that harbor unexamined methodological assumptions and run way ahead of the evidence. Whenever science does this--as, for instance, famously occurred when 18th-century culture attempted to reduce all phenomena to Newtonian mechanism, only to have the neat package unravel with the rise of non-Euclidean geometry, statistical method, and finally the "New" Physics (now a century old, of course) and Godel's logic--there inevitably comes a crisis when the limitations of the paradigm bump up against the hard data and the fallacious hidden assumptions are exposed.