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Sociobiology, Sex, and Science (SUNY Series in Philosophy and Biology) by Harmon R. Holcomb III, 1993-01-07
Sociobiology and the Preemption of Social Science by Professor Alexander Rosenberg, 1980-11-01
The One Per Cent Advantage: The Sociobiology of Being Human by John R. Gribbin, Mary Gribbin, 1988-05
A Sociobiology Compendium: Aphorisms, Sayings, Asides by Del Thiessen, 1997-04-01
Sociobiology and the Human Dimension (Volume 0) by Georg Breuer, 1983-03-31
Listen to the animals: The fundamentals & rationale of sociobiology by E. Gordon Dickie, 1977
Toward a New Science of Man: Quotations for Sociobiology by Robert Lenski, 1981-06
Sociobiology and Behavior by David P. Barash, 1982-09
Animal Cooperation: A Look at Sociobiology by Hallie Black, 1988-11
Ethics of Capitalism and Critique of Sociobiology: Two Essays with a Comment by James M. Buchanan (Studies in Economic Ethics and Philosophy) by Peter Koslowski, 2010-11-02
Sociobiology And The Arts. by Brett Cooke, Jan Baptist Bedaux, 1998-01
Sociobiology and Human Nature: An Interdisciplinary Critique and Defense (Jossey-Bass social and behavioral science series) by Michael Steven Gregory, 1978-10
Sociobiology: The Whisperings within by David P. Barash, 1980-03-20
Primates of South Asia: Ecology, Sociobiology, and Behavior by M. L. Roonwal, S. M. Mohnot, 1977-07-01

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THE PYTHAGOREAN PERSPECTIVE: The Arts And Sociobiology
What it expresses is that it may be profitable in considering the sociobiology of the arts to look at the totality, before diving into the multiple
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Extractions: The Arts and Sociobiology [Robin Allott. 1994. Journal of Social and Evolutionary Systems. Literature, music, mathematics, art, are constituents of culture and each of them has its separate history. But each of them can also be seen as a manifestation of a human biological drive, a drive towards exploration, experimentation, the analysis of human perception. Culture is not something separate from human evolution but a part of a continuing human evolution, indeed the main form which human evolution has taken over the last few thousand years. It is a familiar idea, but perhaps a wrong one, that human evolution, as a Darwinian process, has ceased and been replaced by something quite new, a more Lamarckian process involving the inheritance of acquired characteristics, more specifically of the changing forms of human culture. On this see for example Dawkins (1986), or Huxley(1926). This conclusion that for humans the process of evolution has ended and been replaced by something totally new no doubt is flattering to human beings and allows them to mark themselves off from the rest of animate beings but it leaves a rather unsatisfactory incoherence in evolutionary theory - how can the non-purposive, inescapable processes of genetic evolution, which in effect value all form and behaviour in terms of the relative survival of differing physical genetic patterns (see Dawkins (1989) again) give rise to a form of development for one species totally disconnected from previous evolutionary history? Does this mean that evolutionary theory is only a partial theory of life?
Behavioral Ecology And Sociobiology/Anthropology
Welcome to the sociobiology homepage ! Our department was established as a joint venture between the German Primate Center (DPZ) and the University of
http://www.soziobio.uni-goettingen.de/
Sociobiology, Essay, Meaning Of Life, Philosophy, Tutorial, Overview, Faq, Evolu
Essay presents an overview of the field of Evolutionary Psychology. Features links to related sites.
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Extractions: Web site created: Feb 16, 2001 evo_psych@yahoo.com Essay Sections: Introduction Since the publication of Charles Darwin's "The Origin of Species" The Mind is the Body Mental ailments were once distinguished either as psychological or neurological disorders. Media reports of new scientific studies, though, are now routinely rife with a blurring in the distinction between the two. Increasingly, behavioral problems like compulsive gambling, alcoholism, drug addiction, anorexia, violence (and other criminal behavior) are now being linked to physiological "disorders" in the human brain. To be blunt, though, the traditional distinction between the "mind" and body (brain) has always been suspect (possibly even ludicrous). It's simply been the case that the physical mechanisms of the brain have never been understood unlike, say, the heart or kidney. The human brain has been and remains the ultimate "black box" in medicine and engineering. And this is no surprise, since the most complex, modern supercomputer, which can only now be understood barely on a system-level by an individual, remains a "tinker-toy" compared to the human brain let alone, say, the brain of a cockroach. In fact, understanding all aspects of the human brain may simply be beyond human understanding. The remarkable progress seen in technology, particularly in the semiconductor IC industry, is misleading: some people now think "nothing's impossible" anymore. However, despite all of the "miraculous" progress of the 20th century, there are and always will be fundamental limitations. Some things are impossible and will remain so, no matter how much scientific progress we make (e.g., fundamental thermodynamic constraints).
The Politics Of Sociobiology - The New York Review Of Books
An article by Stephen Jay Gould from The New York Review of Books, May 31, 1979.
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/7782

Extractions: Home Your account Current issue Archives ... In response to The Illusion of Sociobiology October 12, 1978 To the Editors We were pleased to read Stuart Hampshire's review of On Human Nature NYR , October 12) in which he shows the crucial philosophical flaws which undermine the entire structure of human sociobiology. However, in restricting himself purely to the philosophical problems inherent in On Human Nature , Hampshire neglected the social and political issues which are at the heart of the sociobiology controversy. Three years ago many of us wrote a letter ( NYR , November 13, 1975) in response to a review of E.O. Wilson's earlier book, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis , in which we pointed out the political content of this new field. We expressed concern at the likelihood that pseudo-scientific ideas would be used once more in the public arena to justify social policy. The events of the intervening years have fully justified our initial fears. Numerous articles in the popular media have used sociobiological theories to justify the status quo . In an article entitled, "A Genetic Defense of the Free Market,"
The Sociobiology Of Information Architecture - Boxes And Arrows: The Design Behi
But in recent years, breakthrough research by sociobiologists and evolutionary psychologists suggests otherwise that not only do many of our fellow
http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/the_sociobiology_of_information_architecture

Extractions: Born blind, deaf, and mute, shuffling around in the darkness at 30 miles per hour, grasping for food, searching for mates, the life of your average bacteria (or any of the several trillion single-cell organisms on the planet) is invariably nasty, brutish, and short. Much as we may like to think of ourselves as belonging to a uniquely privileged species, the fact is that every complex organism on this planet is engaged in a shared struggle with information overload.
Insects' 'giant Leap' Reconstructed By Founder Of Sociobiology
Jan 2, 2008 Biologist Edward O. Wilson argues that natural selection acting on emergent traits of nascent colonies, rather than on individual organisms,
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-01/aiob-il122707.php

Extractions: American Institute of Biological Sciences The January 2008 issue of BioScience includes an article by biologist Edward O. Wilson that argues for a new perspective on the evolution of advanced social organization in some ants, bees, and wasps (Hymenoptera). Wilsons article surveys recent evidence that the high level of social organization called eusociality, found in some Hymenoptera (and rarely in other species), is a result of natural selection on nascent colonies of species possessing features that predispose them to colonial life. Wilson concludes that these features, principally progressive provisioning of larvae and behavioral flexibility that leads to division of labor, allow some species to evolve colonies that are maintained and defended because of their proximity to food sources. Eusociality is a challenge for biologists to understand because worker castes in eusocial species forgo individual reproduction but rear young that are not their own, a behavior that biologists label altruistic. Wilsons current view about eusociality differs from the assessment in his seminal book Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (1975). According to that widely accepted earlier account, selection acting on individuals that are related (kin selection), rather than on whole colonies, explains eusociality in Hymenoptera. Kin selection is thought to be especially powerful in these animals because of an unusual genetic system, known as haplodiploidy, that they share.
Sociobiology
Over time, Wilson s sociobiology found more and more supporters among biologists, psychologists, and even anthropologists. Only sociology has remained
http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/genpsysociobiology.html

Extractions: Shippensburg University Sociobiology Ever since Darwin came out with his theory of evolution, people - including Darwin himself have been speculating on how our social behaviors (and feelings, attitudes, and so on) might also be affected by evolution. After all, if the way our bodies look and work as biological creatures can be better understood through evolution, why not the things we do with those bodies? The entemologist (bug scientist) E. O Wilson was the first to formalize the idea that social behavior could be explained evolutionarily, and he called his theory sociobiology . At first, it gained attention only in biological circles even there it had strong critics. When sociologists and psychologists caught wind of it, the controversy really got started. At that time, sociology was predominantly structural-functionalist, with a smattering of Marxists and feminists. Psychology was still dominated by behaviorist learning theory, with humanism starting to make some headway. Not one of these theories has much room for the idea that we, as human beings, could be so strongly determined by evolutionary biology! Over time, Wilson's sociobiology found more and more supporters among biologists, psychologists, and even anthropologists. Only sociology has remained relatively unaffected.
Sociobiology / Evolutionary Psychology
The title of his talk is The Future of Life , but he may talk about sociobiology as well. His speech is at 700PM in Goodrich Chapel, and there will be a
http://community.livejournal.com/sociobiology

Extractions: The following webpage describes the contrasting evolutionary psychological origins of different types of fundamental intent. It describes the effect of climates and other environmental traits, the secondary effects that result from different gender ratios, specific beliefs and ideals that stem from such evolved fundamental intent, and specific geographical areas and human subspecies that demonstrate those principles.
Insects' 'Giant Leap' Reconstructed By Founder Of Sociobiology
Jan 4, 2008 A survey of advanced social organization in insects calls into question the standard explanation for eusociality Biologist Edward O. Wilson
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080102083749.htm

Extractions: Share Blog Cite Print Email Bookmark ScienceDaily (Jan. 4, 2008) See also: Wilson's article surveys recent evidence that the high level of social organization called "eusociality," found in some Hymenoptera (and rarely in other species), is a result of natural selection on nascent colonies of species possessing features that predispose them to colonial life. Wilson concludes that these features, principally progressive provisioning of larvae and behavioral flexibility that leads to division of labor, allow some species to evolve colonies that are maintained and defended because of their proximity to food sources. Eusociality is a challenge for biologists to understand because worker castes in eusocial species forgo individual reproduction but rear young that are not their own, a behavior that biologists label altruistic. Wilson's current view about eusociality differs from the assessment in his seminal book Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (1975). According to that widely accepted earlier account, selection acting on individuals that are related (kin selection), rather than on whole colonies, explains eusociality in Hymenoptera. Kin selection is thought to be especially powerful in these animals because of an unusual genetic system, known as haplodiploidy, that they share. Wilson's survey in BioScience, which examines the findings of a number of researchers, points out aspects of the occurrence of eusociality that the standard explanation has difficulty accounting for. Eusociality has evolved only a few times, and not all of them were in haplodiploid species. Furthermore, the great majority of haplodiploid species are not eusocial. Wilson holds that selection acting on traits that emerge at a group level provides a more complete explanation for eusociality's rare instances than kin selection. Kin selection is, he writes, "not wrong" but incomplete.
PTypes - Sociobiology
Text and links on sociobiology (evolutionary psychology)
http://www.ptypes.com/sociobiology.html

Extractions: Darwin's Progress - National Review - Britannica.com Wilson's orthodox Darwinian sociobiology made countless enemies in academia. Centrist anthropologists John Tooby and Leda Cosmides accordingly relaunched sociobiology under the neutral name of "evolutionary psychology." Pronouncing themselves the truest True Believers in equality, Tooby and Cosmides portrayed human nature as almost monolithically uniform and proclaimed that evolutionary psychology should study only human similarities. But while egalitarianism served as a useful cover for infiltrating neo-Darwinism into academia, it proved a largely useless methodology for learning about humanity. Why? Because knowledge consists of contrasts. To learn much about human nature, we need to look for patterns of similarities and differences among humans.
The KLI Theory Lab - Ethology, Sociobiology
The study of all aspects of behavior, including neurophysiology, ethology, comparative psychology, sociobiology, and behavioral ecology (Primate
http://www.kli.ac.at/theorylab/Areas/ETSB.html

Extractions: Other resources Uniqueness can be the product of processes that are themselves general to all living matter. When I first encountered the term "evolutionary psychology," I thought it referred to the study of how mind and behavior have evolved. But I was mistaken. In the last decade, evolutionary psychology has come to refer exclusively to research on human mentality and behavior, motivated by a very specific, nativist- adaptationist interpretation of how evolution operates .... This is a strange, anthropocentric usage, akin to identifying human biology with "biology" generally, or describing geography as "astronomy." Introduction Barry Sinervo The research covered in this area introduction encompasses a very large domain. For the sake of convenience, we have divided it in clusters that are listed alphabetically under the conventional labels "animal behavior," "animal cognition," "ethology," "behavioral ecology," "cognitive ecology," "neuroethology," "sociobiology," and "evolutionary psychology." It should be borne in mind throughout that these labels reflect little more than the contingencies of the history of behavioral biology, and that in practice, the boundaries between these sub-areas tend to be quite blurred.
E. O. Wilson Sociobiology The New Synthesis
Background information on sociobiology The New Synthesis by EO Wilson. A work that seeks to extend ideas about the physical evolution of species towards
http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/scientist/wilson_sociobiology.html

Extractions: Sociobiology: The New Synthesis In 1971 a Professor at Harvard, the prominent entomologist E. O. Wilson, published a book entitled The Insect Societies. Four years later in his study entitled Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, (an enormous volume comprised of 697 extra-sized pages), Wilson sought to extend the understanding he had gained of the principles of the intricate behaviors of social instincts to vertebrate animals. A third book, entitled "On Human Nature", which followed in 1978 was concerned with the further extension of these same principles to the human species. These last two books gave rise an initial storm of controversy that has somewhat abated as the evolutionary behavioral ideas as suggested by Wilson have gained more acceptance. Both within and beyond academic circles it was inevitable that ideas that are effectively concerned with fundamental questions of Human Life: its meaning and its inherent dignity would have the potential to be enormously controversial. In a Darwinian sense the organism does not live for itself. Its primary function is not even to reproduce other organisms; it reproduces genes, and it serves as their temporary carrier... Samuel Butler's famous aphorism, that the chicken is only an egg's way of making another egg, has been modernized: The organism is only DNA's way of making more DNA.
The New Atlantis - The Rise And Fall Of Sociobiology - Peter A. Lawler
hree views of the relationship between human beings and nature have been hugely influential in recent decades social constructionism, sociobiology,
http://www.thenewatlantis.com/archive/1/lawler.htm

Extractions: The Rise and Fall of Sociobiology Peter Augustine Lawler hree views of the relationship between human beings and nature have been hugely influential in recent decades: social constructionism, sociobiology, and biotechnology. Each contains a good deal of truth, and each is still an influential force today. But like all popularized science, these big pictures gain clarity by distorting reality. Each presents part of the truth about being human by disfiguring the whole. Social constructionism is the belief that human nature does not matter or exist, and that most of what we believe about human nature is actually the product of human institutions and cultures, and therefore open to be changed. Sociobiology is the belief that human beings have real natures and natural purposes, but natures and purposes that are fully intelligible through evolution and not really different from those of the other animals. Biotechnology is not so much a belief but a project, which involves using our knowledge of human biology to improve human life and perhaps remake human nature. It thus presumes at least some measure of discontent with what we are now, as well as the existence of an objective biological nature (or system) which it can reliably manipulate.
Sociobiology
sociobiology is a branch of biology and also sociology that attempts to throw light upon behavior in both human and nonhuman societies in terms of
http://www.bio-medicine.org/biology-definition/Sociobiology/
IngentaConnect Publication: Ethology And Sociobiology
Ethology and sociobiology. ISSN 01623095. Elsevier logo. Publisher Elsevier. 13 issues are available electronically. Key. Free Content - Free Content
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All Things Explained: A Look Into Sociobiology
Edward O. Wilson is the father of sociobiology, a discipline which fuses the concepts of culture and society with the theories of biology (evolution,
http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/biology/b103/f00/web2/jones2.html

Extractions: This paper reflects the research and thoughts of a student at the time the paper was written for a course at Bryn Mawr College. Like other materials on Serendip , it is not intended to be "authoritative" but rather to help others further develop their own explorations. Web links were active as of the time the paper was posted but are not updated Contribute Thoughts Search Serendip for Other Papers Serendip Home Page Biology 103 ... On Serendip Just by flipping through the pages of a newspaper or watching the local news, it becomes obvious how great an impact science has on our current thinking. The media has become a showroom for scientific exploits; we hear about gene discoveries, we have a newfound reverence for the ER room, we have ten drug options for every ailment. Science has become the authority on everything from illness to the environment. When the time comes to write a paper for a biology class, the problem isn't what to write about, it is what not to write about. With this in mind, it is not surprising that anyone with a romantic spirit, an affinity for magic, and a secret desire to believe in the X Files, has difficulty accepting that the intricacies of the world can be explained away by science. Is there such a thing as the unknown, or is everything just waiting to be scientifically identified?
Sociobiology - LSE Research Online
Badcock, Christopher (2006) sociobiology. In 21st Century Sociology A Reference Handbook. Sage Publications, London, UK, pp. 295305. ISBN 9781412916080
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Psychology 346IC Human Sociobiology
Information on books about Judaism from an Evolutionary Perspective and papers in evolutionary psychology, by Kevin MacDonald.
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Research sociobiology at the Questia.com online library.
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For more than 20 years Ullica Segerstråle has been charting the course of sociobiology, beginning with E. O. Wilson s sociobiology (1975) and Richard
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