...talisman or design a Skinnerian technology that creates a race of saints? The answer is no. . . . The genes hold culture on a leash. The leash is very long,...their effects on the human gene pool. . . . Human behavior - like the deepest capacities for emotional response which drive and guide it - is the circuitous...

...a direction and momentum of its own and completely replace genetic evolution?" He thinks not: "The genes hold culture on a leash. The leash is very long,...accordance with their effects on the human gene pool." But we really are not sure, and it behooves us to find out as soon as we can. When Wilson dealt in...

...see how cultural development can be accelerated. AN ORGANISMIC VIEW To take Wilson's own words again, "values will be constrained in accordance with their effects on the human gene pool."6 If a statement of human nature, relying on Wilson to some extent, on Dansereau. on Burnet and...

...gain a direction and momentum of its own and completely replace genetic evolution? I think not. The genes hold culture on a leash. The leash is very long,...accordance with their effects on the human gene pool (Wilson, 1978: 167). But if Wilson here emphasizes the existence of the leash, one might equally stress...

...regard as their logical extreme. Harvard University sociobiologist Edward O. Wilson suggests that "the genes hold culture on a leash. The leash is very long,...accordance with their effects on the human gene pool." Nature's first commandment, Wilson argues, is to do what is genetically advantageous. In two of his...

...gain a direction and momentum of its own and completely replace genetic evolution? I think not. The genes hold culture on a leash. The leash is very long,...in accordance with their effects on the human gene pool.9 The image developed by science writers such as Dawkins and Wilson suggests that biological determinants...

...principles or a "higher code" was an "illusion." In a famous image, Wilson puts his vision this way: The genes hold culture on a leash. The leash is very long,...accordance with their effects on the human gene pool. [E. Wilson 1978, p. 167.] But all this means (unless it is just false) is that, in the long run, //we...

...strategies, is the basis for all human science and decisions about what to do for the public good. The genes hold culture on a leash. The leash is very long,...with their effects on the human gene pool . . . Human behavior - like the deepest capacities for emotional response which drive and guide it - is the circuitous...

...most see genetic evolution as the determinant of cultural possibilities. In the words of Wilson: 'The genes hold culture on a leash. The leash is very long, but inevitably values will 14 Wilson, On Human Nature, 32-3. " Dawkins, Selfish Gene, 67, 83. " M. Ridley, The Red Queen (Harmondsworth:...

...for the greater good of the gene pool. On this view, human values are reduced to biological facts: 'inevitably values will be constrained in accordance with their effects on the human gene pool'.18 Nature swallows up freedom. Is the self able to be responsible for itself, as Enlightenment...