The Sociobiology Study Group was an academic organization formed to specifically counter sociobiological explanations of human behavior, particularly those expounded by the Harvard entomologist E. O. Wilson in Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (1975).[1] The group formed in Boston, Massachusetts and consisted of both professors and students, predominantly left-wing and Marxist.[2][3]
Members of the Sociobiology Study Group included Richard C. Lewontin (geneticist, Harvard University), Stephen Jay Gould (paleontologist, Harvard University), Jon Beckwith (Harvard Medical School), Stephan Chorover (psychologist, MIT), David Culver (biologist, Northwestern University), Ruth Hubbard (biologist, Harvard University), Anthony Leeds (anthropologist, Boston University), Margaret Duncan (research assistant, Harvard Medical School), Hiroshi Inouye (resident fellow, Harvard Medical School), Chuck Madansky (graduate student, Harvard Medical School), Lawrence G. Miller (medical student, Harvard Medical School) Miriam Rosenthal (research associate, Harvard School of Public Health), Reed Pyeritz (doctor, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital), and Herb Schreier (psychiatrist, Massachusetts General Hospital).[4]
The Sociobiology Study Group later associated itself with the Boston chapter of Science for the People, thereby forming a larger coalition "The Sociobiology Study Group of Science for the People." The group met monthly, and often held meetings at Harvard lecture halls and in the homes of its members.[4] The meetings often included guests such as Noam Chomsky and Evelyn Fox Keller.[4]
^Wilson, E. O. (2006). Naturalist. New York: Island Press, p.337
^Laland, Kevin N.; Brown, Gillian R. (2011). Sense and Nonsense: Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behaviour. Oxford University Press. p. 61. ISBN 978-0-19-958696-7. The Sociobiology Study Group was dominated by Marxist and left-wing scholars from Harvard.
^Weidman, Nadine (2021). Killer Instinct: The Popular Science of Human Nature in Twentieth-Century America. Harvard University Press. p. 13. ISBN 978-0-674-26966-8. Sociobiology's critics— a group of Marxist and left-wing scientists calling themselves the Sociobiology Study Group...
^ abcSegerstråle, Ullica Christina Olofsdotter (2001). Defenders of the truth. Oxford University Press, pp. 19-24
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