Notes

1. . See my Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1975) and On Human Nature (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1978).
2. . J. W.Bowker, “The Aeolian Harp: Sociobiology and Human Judgment,” Zygon  15 (September 1980): 307–;33; J. R.Nelson, “A Theologian's Response to Wilson's On Human Nature,” in this issue.
3. . Francis Thompson, The Hound of Heaven (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1945).
4. . These two fields are cited for the following reason. The brain sciences constitute a set of disciplines based on molecular and cellular biology. Sociobiology is the behavioral discipline based on population biology. Thus between them the two fields incorporate principles derived from the systematic analysis of the principal levels of biological organization.
5. . See, e.g., G. M. Edelman and V. B. Mountcastle, The Mindful Brain: Cortical Organization and the Group–;Selective Theory of Higher Brain Function (Cambridge, Mass.: M.I.T. Press, 1978).
6. . George Edgin Pugh, The Biological Origin of Human Values (New York: Basic Books, 1977).
7. . C. J. Lumsden and Edward O. Wilson, Genes, Mind, and Culture (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1981).
8. . Charles Frankel, “Sociobiology and Its Critics,” Commentary 68 (July 1979): 39–;47 (reprinted in Zygon 15 [September 19801: 255–;73); Bernard. D. Davis, “The Importance of Human Individuality for Sociobiology,” Zygon 15 (September 1980): 275–;93; Alexander J. Morin, “Sociobiology and Religion: Conciliation or Confrontation?” ibid., pp. 295–;306.
9. . Wilson, On Human Nature; Mary Midgley, Beast and Man (Ithaca, N. Y.: Cornell University Press, 1978); Peter Singer, The Expanding Circle: Ethics and Sociobiology (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1981).
10. . Y.Cohen, “The Disappearance of the Incest Taboo,” Human Nature  1 (1978): 72–78.
11. . Lumsden and Wilson.
12. . Ibid.
13. . Frankel; Davis; Morin.
14. . Derek de Solla Price, Science since Babylon (new Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1975).