./?p=117&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=reflections-and-questions Sat, 22 May 2010 14:45:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 ./?p=117&cpage=1#comment-15 Colin Purrington Thu, 13 May 2010 14:21:07 +0000 ./?p=117#comment-15 Yea, talking about the science of sexual selection is still on the taboo side of things. EO Wilson's Sociobiology book would have been a good thing for us to read at the start of the semester...as a backdrop to the science and the politics of viewing humans as organisms. There is a dominant, dominating thread in certain disciplines to view all aspects of humans as plastic and cultural...taking even a little bit of that away gets many people up in arms. Yea, talking about the science of sexual selection is still on the taboo side of things. EO Wilson’s Sociobiology book would have been a good thing for us to read at the start of the semester…as a backdrop to the science and the politics of viewing humans as organisms. There is a dominant, dominating thread in certain disciplines to view all aspects of humans as plastic and cultural…taking even a little bit of that away gets many people up in arms.

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