. This environmentalism is also an overreaction to the naive hopes, early in this century, for rapid contributions of genetics to the social sciences. This history is well reviewed, from the point of view of a sociologist seeking a balance, by M. Bressler, Genetics, ed. D. C. Glass (New York: Rockefeller University Press, 1968), pp. 178–210.

. Edward Wilson, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1975).

. Edward O. Wilson, On Human Nature (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1978).

. Edward O.Wilson, “Biology and the Social Sciences,” Daedalus  (Fall 1977), pp. 127–40.

. GeraldHolton, “Sociobiology: The New SynthesisScience, Technology, and Human Values  3 (October) 1977): 28–43.

. Ralph WendellBurhoe, “Editorial,” Zygon  13 (December) 1978): 250–56.

. Wilson, On Human Nature, p. 167.

. Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1976).

. Charles Frankel, “Sociobiology and Its Critics,” Commentary 68 (July 1979): 39–47; reprinted in this issue.

. Theodosius Dobzhansky, Genetic Diversity and Human Equality (New York: Basic Books, 1973).

. Wilson, On Human Nature, p. 198.

. Ibid., p. 77.

. Ibid., p. 169.

. Ibid., p. 176.

. Ibid., p. 10.

. Ibid., p. 192.

. Ibid.