Thursday, February 14, 2019
Metaphor, Sociobiology, and Nature vs. Nurture: The Biological Battle o
Metaphor, Sociobiology, and temperament vs. Nurture The Biological Battle of the Century Ladies and Gentlemen I am exalted to present one of the biggest and longest-running biological battles of the century Tonight we recap the move nature vs. nurture fight. The following pages will explain the highlights, but if you regard to learn about this war in its entirety, youll find the blow-by-blow fib available to the public in Connie Barlows collection, From Gaia to Selfish Genes, in a chapter entitled Nature, Nurture, and Sociobiology. What began this brawl of the biologists? Was it a woman? No. Was it a war? No. It was a metaphor. And the metaphor states that society is an organism. This metaphor believes that soulfulnesss in a society work together in order to operate like an organism. But this isnt the disputethe real fight lies at bottom the question, How is this organism organized? In other words, do we inherently ingest the knowledge to function like an organism or argon w e taught this adroitness? Here come the returning champs now In the Blue treeThe Returning Champs The Anti-Sociobiologists Weighing in with a professor from Harvard, a electric chair of neurobiology from the kick in University, and a chair of psychology from Northwestern University, the anti-sociobiologists defend the estimate that genes and environment work together, much like a dance, in which the individual is taught social behavior. In an excerpt from their book, Not in Our Genes, theorists Richard Lewontin from Harvard, Steven Rose from the Open University, and Leon Kamin from Northeastern University propose, as the title suggests, that social behavior is not genetic. Rather, it is taught or influenced by an individuals surrounding environment... ...as hard, scientific evidence, both argon lacking. For example, the sociobiologists cannot prove that altruism is a gene, yet the anti-sociobiologists cannot prove otherwise. Thus, the both the sociobiologists and the anti-soci obiologists search to answer how an organism is organized with theoryand neither have produced a hypothesis that is agreed upon by a consensus. Yet both positions conquer that the metaphor that society is an organism is a commonly accepted idea. Robert Wright reflects my hesitation perfectly when he warns, this blurring of the line between society and organism is a delicate matter (150). It appears that, at least for the time being, both sides are going to have to agree to disagree. Work Cited Barlow, Connie, ed. From Gaia to Selfish Genes Selected books in the Life Sciences.Cambridge, Massachusetts MIT University Press, 1991.
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