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Maybe this is merely uncharitable, since clearly Thompson doesn't really mean that he can engage in a potentially infinite sequence of oral performances, not really really; maybe, on the other hand, it's some kind of disreputable biologism and dispensible to the sort of analysis he's engaged in.

—waste

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use of biological principles in explaining human behavior, especially social behavior.

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use of biological principles in explaining human especially social behavior

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Maybe this is merely uncharitable, since clearly Thompson doesn't really mean that he can engage in a potentially infinite sequence of oral performances, not really really; maybe, on the other hand, it's some kind of disreputable biologism and dispensible to the sort of analysis he's engaged in. — waste
Tallis spoke with withering disdain for the overreaching claims of reductive "biologism" and "Darwinitis," which "confuse our biological roots with our cultural leaves." — Independent Weekly: All Recent Stories