ABSTRACT
Robin Fox has done to the benefit, education, and inspiration of thousands. The chapter discusses four selections from his writings with comments about their influence on author's life. They are selections and comments best thought of as personal remembrances. In the evolution of conceptual thought via language, pressures toward social classification may have been supremely important, and these would have become true "selection pressures" demanding mental equipment that could cope with them. But these conceptual processes concerned with the ordering of social relations were being programmed into hominid individuals by natural selection over time, not induced by socialization in each succeeding generation. Couched in the rules and traditions of academic advancement that are trademarks of universities in the United States, these committees controlled the access of males into the upper levels of the academic hierarchy. Surviving in the world of medical research means that one is continually writing applications for research funds and research progress reports to funding agencies.
