It is interesting to note that E. O. Wilson's writings on sociobiology received a surprisingly favorable reception in the Soviet Union. It was not for some years that critiques of the sort put forth by Richard Lewontin, Richard Levins and Stephen Jay Gould, began to gain traction in the Soviet Union. I discussed this on Quora, drawing mostly from Loren Graham.
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