Questions of values and ideology have taken on increasing prominence in discussions
concerning the adequacy of various scientific explanations of behavior. There has been a …

During the last decade there has been a lively debate about the degree to which
sociobiological theory is untestable due to the highly speculative and ad hoc nature of …

In this chapter, the author explains in few pages why the majority of social scientists continue
to vigorously resist any rapprochement with behavioral biology. By far the most important …

For more than a century," the. idea that human social behavior is determined hy evolutionary
imperatives and constrainedby-innate01'inherited predispositions has been advanced. as …

Sociobiology applies natural selection theory to behavior. It asserts that the behavior of an
animal, like its anatomy, is the product of a process of biological evolution through natural …

Recently, the topic of sociobiology has been the target of much criticism and heated debate
(News and Comment, 19 Mar., p. 1151; Letters, 30 Apr., p. 424). Discussion has centered on …

Seldom has a field of science excited so much enthusiasm as has sociobiology while at the
same time inspiring such vituperation. To biologists working in sociobiology the term …

Sociobiology is defined as the systematic study of the biological basis of all forms of social
behavior, in both animals and human beings (see Wilson, 1975). It has only recently been …

The behavioral (1975), publication confronts sciences of the wilson with social the s and
masterly necessity indeed, synthesis, to even reassess more" sociobiology" the broadly …

Behaviors have been called “biological” to imply that they are unlearned and innately based
on genetic information. Comparative anatomists have approached the problem from another …