Books
April, 1972
Wolfgang Wickler's The Sexual Code: The Social Behavior of Animals and Men (Doubleday) is a provocative contribution to the budding science of ethology. Wickler's major point: Biologically predetermined behavior does not exist for man nor any other animal. Behavior keeps changing--it is the mechanism by which animals adapt to new environments--and changes in physical structure follow behavioral changes. The implications of this view are important. If behavior is so plastic, then alternation of s...
