Mixing sociology, anthropology and psychology with evolution can be explosive. In 1967, Desmond Morris's book The Naked Ape created a furore by portraying humans as shackled by ancient animal instincts, and made contentious evolutionary arguments that, for instance, pornography is harmless. Edward O. Wilson's Sociobiology (1975) created another storm by proposing evolutionary explanations for xenophobia and religion. The fires were stoked a third time by evolutionary psychologists who proclaimed a revolutionary science of the mind.
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机译:将社会学,人类学和心理学与进化相融合可能是爆炸性的。 1967年,戴斯蒙德·莫里斯(Desmond Morris)的著作《裸猿》(Naked Ape)引起了人们的愤怒,将人类描绘成被古代动物本能所束缚,并提出了有争议的进化论据,例如色情制品是无害的。爱德华·威尔逊(Edward O. Wilson)的《社会生物学》(1975)通过提出对仇外心理和宗教的进化解释,掀起了另一场风暴。这场革命的心理学家第三次引发了大火,他们宣称这是一门革命性的思维科学。
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