Ruth Hubbard
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Ruth Hubbard Ph.D. was a Professor of Biology at Harvard University.
Ruth Hubbard is best known for her challenges to colleagues who promote sociobiology. The distinguished geneticist Richard Lewontin says, "No one has been a more tireless and influential critic of the biological theory of women's inequality than Ruth Hubbard."[1] Hubbard was born in Austria and escaped Nazism as a teenager.
It is beyond comprehension, in this century which has witnessed holocausts of ethnic, racial, and religious extermination in many parts of our planet, perpetrated by peoples of widely different cultural and political affiliations and beliefs, that educated persons—scholars and popularizers alike—can come forward to argue, as though in complete innocence and ignorance of our recent history, that nothing could be more interesting and worthwhile than to sort out the “racial” or “ethnic” components of our thoroughly mongrelized species so as to ascertain the root identity of each and everyone of us. And where to look for that identity if not in our genes?[2]
[edit] References
- ^ Lewontin, Richard (April 7, 1994). "Women Against the Biologists". New York Review of Books., reprinted in It Ain't Necessarily So, New York Review Books, 2000.
- ^ Race & Genes By Ruth Hubbard
[edit] Links
- EXPLODING THE GENE MYTH A Conversation with Ruth Hubbard
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