Sociobiology

When this work was first published it started a tumultuous round in the age-old nature versus nurture debate. It shows how research in human genetics and neuros

In June 1975, the distinguished Harvard entomologist Edward O. Wilson published a truly huge book entitled, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis. In this book, drawi

The papers presented in this special collection focus upon conceptual, the oretical and epistemological aspects of sociobiology, an emerging discipline that dea

In The Triumph of Sociobiology, John Alcock reviews the controversy that has surrounded evolutionary studies of human social behavior following the 1975 publica

This book examines sociobiology’s validity and significance, using the sociobiological theory of the evolution of mating and parenting as an example. It identi

1. 1 THE STUDY OF CONFLICT Polemos Pantoon Pater Heraclitus Conflict on all levels of organic existence is pervasive, persistent, ubiquitous. Conflict is the un

"Sociobiology and the study of behavior underlying the creation and reception of art" -- Pref.

To most biologists, sociobiology represents the concept of strict Darwinian individual selection married to an analytical application of ecological principles a

The book has two subjects, first the ethical theory of the economic order, and secondly the critique of sociobiology and its theory of evolution. The first part

This book is about animals and humans - their common features and their gradual and principle differences. It tells of democracy in baboons, prostitution in hum