, the new study of the biological elements in social behavior, touches on human behavior, it causes a stir. Yet the "nature versus nurture" controversy goes back to Charles Darwin's On the Origin of the Species (1859) and his theory of natural selection. The man who wrote Sociobiology: The New Synthesis in 1975 is Harvard entomologist Edward 0.Wilson. To his surprise, he became the target of academic critics, notably Marxists who argued that sociobiology, in effect, preached "ge-...