期刊名称：Evolutionary Psychology: an international journal of evolutionary approaches to psychology and behavior
印刷版ISSN：1474-7049
出版年度：2004
卷号：2
页码：3-6
出版社：Ian Pitchford, Ed.& Pub
摘要：In the 1970's, people at Harvard interested in human behavior behaved like members of rival high-school cliques. Under the banner of sociobiology were biologists Bob Trivers, a brash young genius, Ed Wilson, synthesizer and visionary, and master anthropologist Irven DeVore whose many students, such as Sarah Hrdy, Steve Gaulin, John Tooby and Barbara Smuts, were beginning to carry the revolution forward. They were challenged by the vaunted leaders of neighboring fields such as geneticist Richard Lewontin and paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, evolutionists who for both scholarly and political reasons were scornful of the new pronouncements about human behavior. Supported by social scientists mistrustful of biology in any form, these skeptics wore their left-wing politics on their sleeves and raked the sociobiologists with accusations of bias and incompetence. Anthropologist Melvin Konner found himself in this cauldron after returning from two years of living with !Kung San foragers in Botswana. The intellectual in him was quick to appreciate the merits of the newly confident natural selection theory. But he saw its faults as well. The nascent sociobiology was far too simple: it ignored the details of how the body made the mind. Konner, poet and physiologist that he was, wanted to give the emotions a fuller role partly because of their inherent importance for understanding adaptive behavior, and partly because emotions often don't follow simple rules: they can lead people to behave in weirdly constrained or maladaptive ways
