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From: martillo@ihuxt.UUCP (Yehoyaqim Martillo)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Sex and Determinism
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Date: Sun, 20-May-84 03:03:57 EDT
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Posted: Sun May 20 03:03:57 1984
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A new book has appeared called Biology, Ideology, and Human Nature by R.
C. Lewontin, Steven Rose and Leon J. Kamin.  It is not scholarly but
supports the environmentalist position.  The reviewer in the N.Y. Times
says it's good.  The reviewer and apparently the authors never realized
that nowadays the genetic determinist position is the progressive point of
view.

Changing the environment to produce good woman mathematicians might be
hard.  However within one generation, making everyone mathematical
geniuses through genetic engineering might be easy.