The myth of genetic determinism – again

Behavioral and Brain Sciences 22 (5):885-886 (1999)
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Lifelines mounts a vigorous attack on sociobiology on the utterly mistaken grounds that sociobiologists believe that genes single-handedly determine social behavior. The many previously published rebuttals to this pernicious criticism are conveniently ignored by the author.

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10.1017/s0140525x99222200

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