Post by David Lahti on Mar 4, 2014 21:33:49 GMT -5
Ernst Mayr, in a 2000 interview ("The Grand old Man of Evolution: An interview with evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr," Interview by Michael Shermer and Frank J. Sulloway, Skeptic 8 (January 2000): 76-82), says the following:
"I don't use the word sociobiology. Neither do people like William Hamilton, Richard Alexander, or Robert Trivers. I think Wilson was envious, in fact, that others had contributed to the evolutionary synthesis, so he wanted to create another great synthesis. So he nominated social behavior as a candidate and called it a synthesis."
Just gossip today, yes. But how will the history of science look at these things?
"I don't use the word sociobiology. Neither do people like William Hamilton, Richard Alexander, or Robert Trivers. I think Wilson was envious, in fact, that others had contributed to the evolutionary synthesis, so he wanted to create another great synthesis. So he nominated social behavior as a candidate and called it a synthesis."
Just gossip today, yes. But how will the history of science look at these things?