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 …

70 Book Reviews general themes. Tiger reviews the relationship among biology,
psychology, and the doctrine of cultural relativism. He argues that the environmentalist …

240 REVIEWS ary import of these social phenomena and thereby to sketch the shape and
application of general sociobiological theory. Part III examines sociality of four …

In Wilson's view there is an important difference between sociology, as it is con ceived today,
and sociobiology. It is a difference that revolves around the fact that sociobiology, in contrast …

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 …

732 CONTEMPORARY SOCIOLOGY: A JOURNAL OF REVIEWS still stands apart from
sociobiology because of its largely structuralist and nongenetic approach. It attempts to …

Between social behavior and genetic structure how great is the distance, how determin-ing
the relationship? Barash would guess that about 18% of the variance in social behavior is …

Sociobiology is the study of the biological basis for all social behavior. It is the integration of
neo-Darwinian theory with the observations of animal behavior research. Thus, while the …

One of the few theories in the history of ideas which has been held in common by both the
social and natural sciences as well as philosophy is that of evolution. As a scientific …

To theorize in sociobiological terms is to theorize in the evolutionary terms of the" modern
synthesis"(Huxley, 1942) and its extensions of the last seven decades. Hence, a …