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John Maynard Smith - The Sociobiology controversy: The Marxist reaction (60/102)

To hear more of John Maynard Smith’s stories, go to the playlist:    • John Maynard Smith - Early childhood and a...   The late British biologist John Maynard Smith (1920-2004) is famous for applying game theory to the study of natural selection. In 1973 Maynard Smith formalised a central concept in game theory called the evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS). His ideas, presented in books such as 'Evolution and the Theory of Games', were enormously influential and led to a more rigorous scientific analysis and understanding of interactions between living things. [Listener: Richard Dawkins; date recorded: 1997] TRANSCRIPT: As a Marxist, I knew the row was going to happen. In... the young Marx wrote a series of sort of sentences, sort of programme, called a Theses on Feuerbach, which is sort of... almost a summary of his later philosophical development. And one of the slogans in his list is: 'Man's being determines his consciousness.' That is to say, what Man thinks is determined by the society he lives in, his upbringing, his class, and so on. So religious, scientific, etcetera, beliefs, are just simply a reflection of the social upbringing of the individual. And that allows no place for... for genetics. So it was because of that contradiction that I knew that Marxists were going to be deeply hostile to what Wilson was saying. But yes, I mean, I do think that sociologists have been seriously in error in the degree to which they wanted to ignore genetics.