sociobiology

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the branch of biology that conducts comparative studies of the social organization of animals (including human beings) with regard to its evolutionary history

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If entemologists have things backward, their errors have spawned a host of others central to modern evolutionary science. ...E. O. Wilson is... the founder of a rich and fruitful discipline-sociobiology. And sociobiology has... helped lay the groundwork for the dogma of the "selfish gene." Howard Bloom

Sociobiology reduces the human to the animal instead of observing how the animal becomes human. Harvey Mansfield

An important concept in sociobiology is that temperamental traits within a gene pool and between gene pools exist in an ecological balance. Source: Internet

Before moving to the next chapter, he discusses some sociobiology controversies. Source: Internet

Firstly, the study of animal social behavior (including humans) generated sociobiology, defined by its pre-eminent proponent Edward O. Wilson in 1975 as "the systematic study of the biological basis of all social behavior" Wilson, Edward O. 1975. Source: Internet

Edward H. Hagen writes in The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology that sociobiology is, despite the public controversy regarding the applications to humans, "one of the scientific triumphs of the twentieth century." Source: Internet

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