Sociobiology and human nature : [an interdisciplinary critique and defense] / Michael S. Gregory, Anita Silvers, & Diane Sutch, editors.

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1978
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    Preface This volume is the outcome of a conference held at San Fran¬ cisco State University on June 14-15, 1977. That conference, So- ciobiology: Implications for Human Studies, was sponsored by NEXA, the Science-Humanities Convergence Program. NEXA is funded under a development grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). It is responsible for deriving a curric¬ ulum of courses, team taught by members of the humanities and the sciences, that stress the convergence of these two cultures within a context of common history and implicitly shared values. NEXA is also charged with faculty development at San Francisco State University, enabling instructors to share the perspectives of disciplines often far removed from their own. Further, under the auspices of NEH and private funding institutions NEXA is able to offer public symposia and colloquia that focus on concerns that equally affect sciences and the humanities. The conference was designed to perform two functions for ix