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While being an interesting look at the beginnings of Sociobiology, NOVA follows the well formulated basis on which it is built, only to turn the Documentary into a Biography. "Lord of the Ants", a NOVA educational title, follows the pioneering works of E.O. Wilson, the founder of Sociobiology. This film highlights the facts and sound experiments that E.O. Wilson used to build the foundations, of this controversial subject. After illustrating how his ideas, on human behavior, were rejected due to similarities with historical dictators, NOVA decides to become a conservative entity and follow the rest of E.O. Wilson's career instead of making a stand for science. Arguments against Sociobiology rest in the Greek founders of Western thought. They believed that humans were born pure, and virtually all of human nature is influenced by upbringing. Sociobiology tells a tale of a different world, where all animals are influenced by our distant past through genetics. Not surprisingly, this did raise a fuss, but not a rational argument was produced to counter Sociobiology. The opposition's basis was in untruth. They felt that if we taught Sociobiology then the population would prepare actions leading towards Genocide. The mass would blame murder, rape, and other abusive actions on a person's DNA. In order to prevent this travesty, they choose to reject sound scientific theories and thrust the old ones down young children's throats. I believe any action that intends to spread falsehoods within education should be weeded out by cultural means. This is why I am making a stand for education. It is immoral to spread any "truth" that had been disproved with scientific repeatable experiments. Sociobiology merely gives some reason for why we do what we do. It does not fully explain the cultural phenomena that we produce. Therefore studying Sociobiology would not disrupt our understandings of free will. As long as we believe we have a choice, we will not blame genetics for the errors we make.
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