On this discussion see Hilary Rose and Steven Rose, 'The metaphor goes into orbit: science is not all social relations', in Science Bulletin (October 1978)
2.
The selfish gene (London 1976)
3.
See Hilary Rose and Steven Rose, 'The IQ myth', in Race & Class (July 1978).
4.
V. Mark and L. Ervin, Violence and the brain (London1970).
5.
For more details see the discussion in Hilary Rose and Steven Rose, The political economy of science (London1976).
6.
For instance, the various publications of the US Science for the People study group on sociobiology, including their review in the New York Review of Books and, most recently their book, Biology as a social weapon ( Cambridge, Mass., 1978); or the very useful anthropological demolition by Mashall Sahlins, The use and abuse of biology (London1977).
7.
Chance and necessity (London, 1971)
8.
See 'The metaphor goes into orbit', op cit
9.
See my review of On human nature in New Scientist (19 October 1978).
