[lbo-talk] Biology vs. Sociobiology: Father's Milk

Leigh Meyers leighcmeyers at gmail.com
Sat Jun 4 20:29:49 PDT 2005


---- Original Message ---- From: Gar Lipow To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2005 7:59 PM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Biology vs. Sociobiology: Father's Milk


> Adding some fuel for the to fire:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/05/magazine/05FREAK.html?pagewanted=print
> Monkey prostitution! Empirical observation! Really bad methodology!
> Just-so stories galore.

There really isn't enough info to judge the methodology used, but this gave me a giggles, and the shivers, at the same time.

<...> But do the capuchins actually understand money? Or is Chen simply exploiting their endless appetites to make them perform neat tricks? <...>

I wonder that about humans all the time.

"But do the humans actually understand money? Or is the media and their advertising henchmen simply exploiting their endless appetites to make them perform neat tricks?"

www.adbusters.org

Leigh



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