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Add MS 86615
- Record Id:
- 040-000442742
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-000375067
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000177.0x0003e7
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 86615
- Title:
- "Sociobiology" row
- Scope & Content:
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Some items are undated.
- Letter to Dick Lewontin from Maynard Smith relating to review of 'Genes, mind and culture'; 19 Jul undated.
- Letter to the editors of Nature from Charles J. Lumsden and Edward O. Wilson; 9 Jun 1981. Typewritten copies.
- Letter to the editors of New York Review of Books from Charles J. Lumsden and Edward O. Wilson; 3 Jul 1981. Annotated 'supposedly in press'. Typewritten copies.
- Letter from Maynard Smith to Lumsden relating to the review of 'Genes, mind and Culture'; 26 Jul 1981.
- Letter from Lumsden to Maynard Smith; 8 Aug 1981 attached to computer printouts 'Listing 1. The (0.4, 0.6) Bias Case, CJL'; 8 Aug 1981.
- Letter from Maynard Smith to Lumsden; 20 Aug 1981?
- Letter to Maynard Smith from Charles Lumsden, 28 Aug 1981, cc E.O. Wilson.
- Letter to Maynard Smith from Peter Medawar (Clinical Research Centre, Middlesex), relating to the review of 'Genes, Mind and Culture'; 31 Jul 1981. Signed.
- Letters to Maynard Smith from Steven Rose, (Biology Department, Open University); 18 Jun 1979. Includes the article 'Sociobiology: the instincts in our genes'.
- Stephen Rose to Maynard Smith; 19 Nov 1980. Includes articles by John Thornton Bannerman, 'Nationalism, racialism: product of our selfish genes', New Nation, 2 (1980), and Richard Verrall, 'Science is championing our creed of social nationalism', New Nation, 1 (1980).
- Letter to Maynard Smith possibly by Seger; Sunday undated. Comment on letter to [Nature?]
- Letter to Maynard Smith from E.O. Wilson (Museum of Comparative Anatomy, Harvard); 13 Sep 1978. Signed.
- Manuscript extract from an article on culture and biology.
- Draft of 'Models of Cultural and Genetic Change' by Maynard Smith and N. Warren. Handwritten.
- Handwritten notes on vertical transmission.
- Handwritten notes on cost functions.
- Computer printouts.
- Computer printouts and other notes.
- Reviews of 'Genes, mind and culture' and 'Cultural Transmission and evolution: a quantitative approach' annotated: 'to John (Maynard Smith) with best wishes from John' (G. Turner, Reader in Evolutionary Genetics, University of Leeds). Typewritten.
- Handwritten notes and workings out: 'Suppose you start with no trait. . .'; 'Model 1 . . . '.
- Isadore Nabi, 'An evolutionary interpretation of the English Sonnet (The first annual Piltdown lecture on man and nature)' annotated: 'a first draft apparently, Paul'.
- Neil Warren, 'Cultural and biological evolution' and a covering note from Neil Warren.
- Thomas Wynn, 'The intelligence of Oldowan Hominids' manuscript for Journal of Human Evolution, in press. Annotated by Neil Warren.
- Joseph S. Alper and Robert V. Lange, 'Lumsden-Wilson theory of gene-culture evolution', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 6 (1980), 3976-3979.
- Newspaper article, Irenaus Eibl Eibesfeldt, 'Die Angst vor den Menschen: Von den Wurzeln diskriminierenden Verhaltens', SZ Am Wochenende, 3-4 Jul 1982. Includes English translation by Arthur Merin.
- Steven Rose, 'The Thatcher view of human nature', New Scientist, 1979, 575. Annotated: 'John see last paragraph, Richard' (possibly Dawkins).
- Steven Rose, 'Genes and race', Nature, 239 (1981), 335. Typescript copy of a letter sent to Nature from Richard Dawkins, annotated; 30 Jan undated.
- Jon Seger, 'Social Scientists and sociobiologists get their lines crossed', Nature, 291 (1981), 690.
- Maynard Smith, J., Warren N., ‘Models of cultural and genetic change’, Evolution, 36 (1982), 620-627.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000375067
036-000375071
040-000442742 - Is part of:
- Add MS 86569-86840 : John Maynard Smith Archive
Add MS 86597-86830 : Subject files
Add MS 86615 : "Sociobiology" row - Hierarchy:
- 032-000375067[0003]/036-000375071[0020]/040-000442742
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 86569-86840
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 29 loose items
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
German - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1979
- End Date:
- 1982
- Date Range:
- 1979-1982
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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