 | Daniel E. Lee - Philosophy - 2002 - 164 pages
...Pulitzer Prize-winning book published three years after Sociobiology.^ He states in On Human Nature, "The genes hold culture on a leash. The leash is very long,...accordance with their effects on the human gene pool. The brain is a product of evolution."15 And with a persistence that has spanned several decades, Wilson... | |
 | Hans Schwarz - Religion - 2002 - 270 pages
...Exod. 1 o. o3. Arnold W. Ravin, "Science, Values, and Human Evolution," Zygon 11 1June 1o76): 151. is very long, but inevitably values will be constrained in accordance with the effects on the human gene pool."g4 The findings of behavioral genetics are not, however, totally... | |
 | Graeme Donald Snooks - Philosophy - 2003 - 366 pages
...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; my emphasis) The human "dog," therefore, is under the control of its "master," the... | |
 | William M. Dugger, Howard J. Sherman - Business & Economics - 2003 - 328 pages
...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. The brain is a product of evolution. Human behavior - like the deepest capacities for emotional response... | |
 | Duncan Reid, Mark William Worthing - Religion - 2003 - 262 pages
...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.32 Yes, say others. 'Understanding the often unconscious nature of genetic control is the first... | |
 | Denis Alexander - Religion - 2003 - 518 pages
...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.1" The type of relationship envisaged between genotype and phenotype is well illustrated by the... | |
 | Ted Peters - Bioethics - 2003 - 284 pages
...processes, which are presumed to be deterministic. "The genes hold culture on a leash," writes Wilson. "The leash is very long but inevitably values will...in accordance with their effects on the human gene pool."25 He goes on to argue that the human brain is a product of evolution. Human behavior, including... | |
 | Mark L. Y. Chan, Roland Chia - Genetic engineeing - 2003 - 244 pages
...itself. Thus Wilson could say that '[t]he genes hold culture on a leash'. The leash, Wilson continues, 'is very long but inevitably values will be constrained...accordance with their effects on the human gene pool'. 6 Wilson's sociobiology has since come under different names: behavioural ecology, Darwinian anthropology,... | |
 | Marjorie B. Garber - Allusions - 2003 - 332 pages
...and momentum of its own and completely replace genetic evolution? I think not. The genes hold culmre on a leash The leash is very long, but inevitably values will be constrained in accordance with (heir effects on the human gene pooL The brain is a product of evolution. Human behavior — like the... | |
 | Thomas Anthony Shannon, James J. Walter - Biotechnology - 2003 - 204 pages
...process of mental development."47 Thus genes hold culture on a leash and though the leash is long, "inevitably values will be constrained in accordance with their effects on the human gene pool."48 Richard Dawkins, who is most popularly associated with a narrow reading of altruism through... | |
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The genes hold culture on a leash. The leash is very long, but inevitably values will be constrained in accordance with their effects on the human gene pool. 
