Steve Stewart-Williams Quote

For much of the 20th century, the blank slate view was the dominant view in the social sciences. With the popularization of sociobiology in the 1970s, however, evolutionary approaches to human behavior became the locus of an academic culture war between biologically minded thinkers and advocates of the traditional social science model.


(p. 141) - The Ape that Thought It Was a Peacock: Does Evolutionary Psychology Exaggerate Human Sex Differences? (2013)


For much of the 20th century, the blank slate view was the dominant view in the social sciences. With the popularization of sociobiology in the...

For much of the 20th century, the blank slate view was the dominant view in the social sciences. With the popularization of sociobiology in the...

For much of the 20th century, the blank slate view was the dominant view in the social sciences. With the popularization of sociobiology in the...

For much of the 20th century, the blank slate view was the dominant view in the social sciences. With the popularization of sociobiology in the...