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By Horacio Fábrega, Jr. 364 pp., illustrated. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1997. $45. ISBN 0-520-20609-6.

Although 19th-century evolutionary philosophers, notably Herbert Spencer (1820 to 1903), made large claims for the biologic basis of human beliefs and practices, serious discussion of a biologic or genetic basis for social customs and structures went into a prolonged eclipse with the rise of the Nazis. In 1975, Edward O. Wilson, the noted Harvard entomologist, revived the field when he gave it a new name — sociobiology — and intellectual respectability with his influential book, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press). Heretofore, sociobiologists have had relatively little to say to orthodox medicine. Dr. Horacio . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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