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 …

To most biologists, sociobiology represents the concept of strict Darwinian individual
selection married to an analytical application of ecological principles and brought to bear on …

Sociobiologists are trying to expand the frontiers of biology to include territory which has
traditionally been part of the domain of the social sciences. The controversy over …

Evolutionary social science applies theory and method developed in evolutionary biology,
anthropology, psychology and economics to understand adaptive variation in human …

Biosociological theories integrate biology into sociological explanations of human social
behavior. They do so by incorporating theoretical ideas and empirical discoveries from …

Behavioral ecology and sociobiology are relatively new scientific disciplines. They rose to
prominence in the 1960s and 1970s as parts of other disciplines, and then solidified their …

Sociology is in crisis. While other disciplines have taken on board the revolutionary
discoveries driven by evolutionary biology and psychology, genomics and behavioral …

Editors' Summary: Eric Smith in this chapter expands on some of the ideas presented in the
previous chapter to outline the field of evolutionary ecology, a rapidly developing area in …

This project presents a critical, ie, a philosophical, defense of a theory of sociobiology that is
more sensible than that implicit in EO Wilson's 1975 Sociobiology: The New Synthesis on …

Sociobiology is the study of animal behaviour from an evolutionary perspective. It played a
major role in Darwin's Origin of Species, but then lay undeveloped until the 1960s. It proved …