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Defenders of the Truth: The Battle for Science in the Sociobiology Debate and Beyond

Ullica Segerstråle

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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

Razib Khan loved it
Though written accessibly, Segerstrale’s narrative rewards repeat reading, because it is so dense with historical detail that remains relevant today.

on razibkhan.com · 1 Jan 2026

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.