1. Sociobiology - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia sociobiology is a synthesis of scientific disciplines which attempts to explain social behavior in animal species by considering the Darwinian advantages specific behaviors may http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociobiology

Sociobiology From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search For the book by E. O. Wilson , see Sociobiology: The New Synthesis Part of the Biology series on Evolution Mechanisms and processes Adaptation Genetic drift Gene flow Mutation ... Speciation Research and history Introduction Evidence Evolutionary history of life History ... Evolutionary biology fields Cladistics Ecological genetics Evolutionary development Evolutionary psychology ... e Sociobiology is a synthesis of scientific disciplines which attempts to explain social behavior in animal species by considering the Darwinian advantages specific behaviors may have. It is often considered a branch of biology and sociology , but also draws from ethology anthropology evolution zoology ... population genetics and other disciplines. Within the study of human societies , sociobiology is closely related to the fields of human behavioral ecology and evolutionary psychology Sociobiology investigates social behaviors, such as mating patterns, territorial fights, pack hunting, and the hive society of social insects. It argues that just as selection pressure led to animals evolving useful ways of interacting with the natural environment, it led to the genetic evolution of advantageous social behavior. Sociobiology has become one of the greatest scientific controversies of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, especially in the context of explaining

2. Sociobiology Insects' 'giant leap' reconstructed by founder of sociobiology. The January 2008 issue of BioScience includes an article by biologist Edward O. Wilson that argues for a new http://www.bio-medicine.org/tag/Sociobiology/

3. Sociobiology Explains major concepts of sociobiology, including Ethology, Evolution, Attraction, Sexual Dimorphism, Imprinting, Kin Selection, Reciprocal Altruism, and Dominance Hierarchies. Contrasts the roles of sociobiology and Culture. http://www.ship.edu/~cgboeree/sociobiology.html

SOCIOBIOLOGY C. George Boeree 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 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.

4. Sociobiology: Evolution, Genes And Morality sociobiology claims to explain the origin and meaning of all human and animal social behavior in terms of genetics and natural selection. This view is inadequate to explain the http://www.leaderu.com/orgs/probe/docs/sociobio.html

5. Sociobiology (Stanford Encyclopedia Of Philosophy) The term ‘sociobiology’ was introduced in E. O. Wilson's sociobiology The New Synthesis (1975) as the application of evolutionary theory to social behavior. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/sociobiology/

Cite this entry Search the SEP Advanced Search Tools ... Please Read How You Can Help Keep the Encyclopedia Free Sociobiology First published Mon Nov 21, 2005 Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (1975) as the application of evolutionary theory to social behavior. Sociobiologists claim that many social behaviors have been shaped by natural selection for reproductive success, and they attempt to reconstruct the evolutionary histories of particular behaviors or behavioral strategies. For example, evolutionary biologists have been long puzzled by cases of apparent altruism in certain animal societies: sterile workers in insect colonies, warning calls, resource sharing, and many others (see Darwin, 1859, pp. 235-242; 1871; 1872). Such behaviors appear to incur a cost to the cooperating or altruistic organisms, which would seem to make them impossible to evolve by natural selection. To explain the existence of altruism, sociobiologists first articulated the conditions under which altruistic behavior might be advantageous. In a series of theoretical papers in the 1960s and 70s, evolutionary biologists cleverly showed that natural selection would in fact favor behaviors that decrease the reproductive fitness of their actors, provided that close relatives sufficiently benefit (Hamilton, 1964; see also Trivers, 1974). Those models were later expanded to show how altruistic behaviors could evolve among unrelated organisms within social groups (Trivers, 1971; Hamilton, 1972; Maynard Smith, 1974). Further developments in the 1980s allowed evolutionary biologists to model more complex social dynamics (e.g., Axelrod and Hamilton, 1981; Maynard Smith, 1982; for a fuller treatment, see the entry on

6. Great Ideas In Personality--Evolutionary Psychology Includes links to research papers, web sites, and other reference sources. http://www.personalityresearch.org/evolutionary.html

Evolutionary Psychology Table of Contents Adaptationist Program Inclusive Fitness Wilson's Ladder Level 1 ... Home Evolutionary psychology is an evolutionary approach to human nature. Attachment Theory is also grounded in certain evolutionary ideas, and Behavior Genetics is a field concerned with that all-important evolutionary mechanism, the gene. Evolutionary Psychology and Sociobiology One author summed up the basic idea of evolutionary psychology this way: "A person is only a gene's way of making another gene" (Konner, 1985, p. 48). Sociobiology (of which evolutionary psychology is a subfield that particularly concerns humans) can be thought of as having, like any research program , a "hard core" of problem solving strategies that provide possible answers to vexing research questions, and a "protective belt" of promising research questions to be addressed by providing actual answers to these questions. The protective belt structures our ignorance by identifying research questions that must be addressed if the research program is to advance. Whereas the actual answers that arise from the protective belt may be wrong, the hard core (by methodological fiat) is never wrongany potential negative evidence is to be blamed on faulty auxiliary assumptions rather than on the theory itself. Sociobiology can be thought of as a special case of the adaptationist program , which assumes that all phenotypic features (or characters) of contemporary organisms result from the fact that these features allowed the organisms' predecessors to produce more offspring in a prehistoric environment (Lewontin, 1979). "Narrow sociobiology" is defined as the study of evolution and of function, and chiefly applies to non-human animals in which cultural transmission is not an important variable intervening between possible and actual explanations (Kitcher, 1988). The hard core of narrow sociobiology includes the following laws or problem solving strategies, the basics of evolutionary theory:

7. Sociobiology / Evolutionary Psychology Germany I'm moving to Germany in a couple of weeks and won't be able to look for a job until I'm there. Does anyone know of any groups in or around Germany that does conservation http://community.livejournal.com/sociobiology/

You are viewing the community sociobiology Log in Create a LiveJournal Account Learn more Sociobiology / Evolutionary Psychology [Most Recent Entries] [Calendar View] [Friends] Below are the most recent journal entries recorded in Sociobiology / Evolutionary Psychology 's LiveJournal: Thursday, March 11th, 2010 11:18 pm Germany I'm moving to Germany in a couple of weeks and won't be able to look for a job until I'm there. Does anyone know of any groups in or around Germany that does conservation/environmental/ethology work? X-POSTED Comment on this Sunday, June 7th, 2009 9:51 am houseava Vampires Today...: A Study Of The Subculture (New Academic Book) will want to purchase a copy of this book. There hasn't been anything quite like this published before... a very different kind of text/approach than that of Ramsland, Guiley, Guinn, and others. The academic and sociological significance of this work can't be underscored enough. Laycock offers a sweeping scholarly examination of the vampire community and the process of self-identification as a vampire. He counters many of the negative stereotypes of the vampire community and posits thought-provoking arguments regarding ontological diversity. Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Vampires-Today-Tru

8. Sociobiology Human Behavior And Evolution A useful bibliography. http://home1.gte.net/ericjw1/sociobiology.html

9. Sociobiology: Definition From Answers.com n. The study of the biological determinants of social behavior, based on the theory that such behavior is often genetically transmitted and subject to evolutionary processes http://www.answers.com/topic/sociobiology

10. Sociobiologists - Definition Of Sociobiologists By The Free Online Dictionary, T sociobiology the branch of biology that conducts comparative studies of the social organization of animals (including human beings) with regard to its evolutionary history http://www.thefreedictionary.com/sociobiologists

11. Connotea Sociobiology Offers links to news and journal articles. http://www.connotea.org/rss/search?q=Sociobiology

12. 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 http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/sociobiology.html

SOCIOBIOLOGY C. George Boeree 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 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.

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14. Woodhill Publishing: Purpose Of Life, A Book On Philosophy / Ethics / Evolution The Purpose of Life is summarised. This is a book on the philosophy of values and ethics from a viewpoint of evolution or sociobiology. http://www.woodhillpublishing.co.uk

Woodhill Publishing The Purpose of Life Summary of Main Argument Book Contents Page Contact Details Order Form ... Home The Purpose of Life by Donald Cameron Woodhill Publishing (2001) The Purpose of Life is an entirely non-mystical solution to the problem of moral philosophy derived with the aid of current ideas in biology and mathematical decision theory. Dr Cameron makes the ambitious claim to have solved the problem, for the first time providing objective answers to questions of values and ethics. Statements about value, purpose or morality are fundamentally different from statements about fact and scientific attempts to prove them from premises of fact must fail. The philosophers' principle that you cannot derive an "ought" from an "is" is valid. A value conclusion cannot be drawn from premises consisting only of facts. There must be at least one value premise. This result has been used by philosophers as a licence to pull complex value statements out of their culturally conditioned feelings before applying reasoning to them. The author uses a different approach. That is to seek the most basic, self-evident axioms of value. These are (a) to wish not to hold contradictory beliefs about values, (b) to reject nihilism (the idea that nothing matters at all) and (c) to wish one's values not to be a result of random accidental events, but to have a source of information. The only source of non-random information, which has created human values, including the human instinct to build an ethical culture, is the force of natural selection. The fact of evolution and, in particular, the modern analyses of the evolution of altruism and social behaviour are essential to understand any philosophy of values. It is astonishing that so many investigators of ethics have felt able to ignore them.

15. Selfish Genes, Paradise Engineering And The Post-Darwinian Transition How genetic engineering will get rid of suffering in all sentient life. http://www.sociobiology.com/

T HE H EDONISTIC I MPERATIVE Heaven on Earth? ABSTRACT "...for just as the smallpox virus was systematically hunted down to extinction, so the precise molecular signature(s) of aversive experience and its predisposing genes will be hunted down and wiped out as well. The systematic application of nanotechnology, self-reproducing micro-miniaturised robots armed with supercomputer processing power, and ultra-sophisticated genetic engineering, perhaps using retro-viral vectors, will cure the root of all evil in its naturalistic guise throughout the living world. And once the pain has gone, with the right genes and designer drugs there's no reason why life shouldn't just get better and better.... " THE MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF PARADISE WTA HedWeb HerbWeb BLTC Research ... The Post-Darwinian Transition E-mail info@sociobiology.com

16. Sociobiology: Encyclopedia II - Sociobiology - Controversy The application of sociobiology to humans was immediately controversial. Many people, such as Stephen Jay Gould, and Richard Lewontin feared that sociobiology was biologicially http://www.experiencefestival.com/a/Sociobiology_-_Controversy/id/5471737

17. History Of Sociobiology A brief historical perspective from Southern Arkansas University. http://peace.saumag.edu/faculty/Kardas/Courses/GPWeiten/C1Intro/Sociobiology.htm

18. Sociobiology Read a variety of topics and views about sociobiology, the study of the biological basis of social behaviors. http://animals.about.com/od/sociobiology/Sociobiology.htm

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19. The New Criterion Biologist Paul Gross on the relationship between sociobiology and recent scandals in anthropology. http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/19/feb01/pgross.htm

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