But in a long letter summarizing the book's allegations, two anthropologists, Dr . Terence Turner of Cornell University and Dr . Leslie E . Sponsel of the University of Hawaii, speculated that a likely motive for spreading the measles epidemic _ if the harshest allegations are correct _ might have been to support Neel's genetic theories.
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:: : : If you feel so strongly that the only negative commentary on the watchlist page is the phrase " pseudoscientific theories ", and that it would be more appropriate to replace it with " psychological / genetic theories which don't appear to have scientific validity ", exactly what is stopping you from making that very change?
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In " The Selfish Gene ", evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins writes that " Blood-feuds and inter-clan warfare are easily interpretable in terms of genetic theory . " Dawkins writes that racial prejudice, while not evolutionarily adaptive, " could be interpreted as an irrational generalization of a kin-selected tendency to identify with individuals physically resembling oneself, and to be nasty to individuals different in appearance ".
