Volume 28, Number 6 · April 16, 1981
Designer Genes
By S.L. Washburn
Human Nature and History: A Response to Sociobiology
by Kenneth Bock
Columbia University Press, 241 pp., $18.95
Useful working relations between biology and the social sciences have proved exceedingly difficult to maintain. This may seem surprising because of their common interests. The social sciences deal with the behavior of human beings, and biology contributes to the understanding of the way human beings function. Demography and the health sciences have both biological and social roots. Modern psychiatry is both biological and social. A large and fundamental part of modern science involves the use of laboratory animals to aid in the solution of human problems.
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