ABSTRACT
Because Wilsonian Sociobiology is a particularly dramatic contemporary version of biological determinist theories of human behavior, because it is powerful and persuasive, because it is a particularly good example of bad science, because it provides “scientific” support for a dominant political ideology that directly opposes every goal and issue raised by the women’s movement, and because it has been aggressively marketed and perceptibly incorporated into our culture, it seems a fitting area with which to begin the examination of science and scientific theories of biological determinism.
