[lbo-talk] Kenneally, some notes and background

[Miles Jackson]

James Heartfield wrote:
> Miles writes
> 
> 'So questions about the "independent" effect of biological factors
> are based on a faulty premise.  The sooner we stop asking them, the
> sooner we can focus on the important questions about how the complex
>  interactions between biological factors and the environment shape 
> various human characteristics.'
> 
> Well, you say those are the important questions. But it is surely
> right to insist on the specificity of the study of human biology as
> biology. The human organism offers up biological processes to study
> as such - like circulation, the lymphatic system, digestion and so
> on. So far the study of the 'how the complex  interactions between
> biological factors and the environment shape various human
> characteristics' has been a pretty barren field by contrast. 

Well, those are the important questions if you're a psychologist.  If 
you're a biologist, then I agree that you have different fish to fry.

Miles