21. General Term: Sociobiology sociobiology. According to its ‘founding figure', E. O. Wilson, sociobiology is “the systematic study of the biological basis of all social behavior.” http://www.counterbalance.org/gengloss/socbio-body.html

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22. Article | First Things Tom Bethell speculates on what future generations will make of the controversy surrounding human sociobiology. http://www.firstthings.com/article.php3?id_article=2126

23. E. O. Wilson - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Edward Osborne Wilson (born June 10, 1929) is an American biologist, researcher (sociobiology, biodiversity), theorist (consilience, biophilia), naturalist (conservationist http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._O._Wilson

E. O. Wilson From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search E. O. Wilson October 16, 2007 Born June 10, 1929 Birmingham, Alabama United States Nationality American Fields Biologist Institutions Harvard University Alma mater University of Alabama Harvard University Doctoral students Daniel Simberloff Donald J. Farish Steven Pinker Coining the terms 'sociobiology' ... Epic of Evolution Notable awards Pulitzer Prize Crafoord Prize Pulitzer Prize Kistler Prize ... Nierenberg Prize Edward Osborne Wilson (born June 10, 1929) is an American biologist, researcher ( sociobiology biodiversity ), theorist ( consilience biophilia ), naturalist ( conservationist ) and author. His biological specialty is myrmecology , the study of ants Wilson is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction . He is known for his career as a scientist, his advocacy for environmentalism , and his secular-humanist and deist ideas pertaining to religious and ethical matters. As of 2007, he is Pellegrino University Research Professor in Entomology for the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University and a Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry . He is a Humanist Laureate of the International Academy of Humanism Contents Early life Theories and beliefs Epic of evolution Sociobiology ... edit Early life Wilson was born in Birmingham, Alabama

24. Sociobiology Theory This is based on the ‘Selfish Gene’ principle that we are simply ‘gene machines’, programmed to propagate our genes as far as we can. http://changingminds.org/explanations/theories/sociobiology.htm

Changing Minds .org How we change what others think, feel, believe and do Disciplines Techniques Principles Explanations ... Links Now, you can buy the real book! Look inside Can you easily help the site? Add/share/save this page: addthis_pub = 'dmstraker'; Save the rain Sociobiology Theory Explanations Theories Description Example ... References Description This affects how we view other people when choosing a mate. Men will look for women who look like they can bear their child. They thus look for young women with large breasts, good-sized buttocks and general health and fitness (such as toned and reasonably slim body). Women will look for strong and powerful men who can feed and defend the family (age is less important). It also explains why men tend to be polygamous, seeking to spread their seed as far as possible, whilst women seek a secure family unit as they need long-term stability to bring up the children. Example Notice your own reaction to people of the opposite sex. Who do you find physically attractive? Why? So what?

25. Pflügers Archiv - European Journal Of Physiology Tables of contents and article abstracts from this Springer-Verlag journal. Complete article texts are available in PDF format to print subscribers. http://www.springer.com/biomed/human physiology/journal/424

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26. Sociobiology - Definition Of Sociobiology By The Free Online Dictionary, Thesaur so ci o bi ol o gy (s sbl-j, -sh-) n. The study of the biological determinants of social behavior, based on the theory that such behavior is often genetically transmitted http://www.thefreedictionary.com/sociobiology

27. Sociobiology From The Social Science Encyclopedia, Second Edition | BookRags.com sociobiology from The Social Science Encyclopedia, Second Edition. sociobiology summary with 11 pages of research material. http://www.bookrags.com/tandf/sociobiology-5-tf/

28. THE PYTHAGOREAN PERSPECTIVE: The Arts And Sociobiology A paper exploring the idea that cultural evolution is a manifestation of biological evolution. http://www.percepp.com/pythagor.htm

THE PYTHAGOREAN PERSPECTIVE 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?

29. Edward O. Wilson On The Paula Gordon Show An interview with the author of sociobiology . http://www.paulagordon.com/shows/wilson/

The Paula Gordon Show The Science of Survival Edward O. Wilson is among the world's great scientists. Author of two Pulitzer Prize winning books, Dr. Wilson spent a lifetime teaching at Harvard, where he earned his Ph.D. and which awarded him both of its college-wide teaching awards. Currently Professor and Honorary Curator of Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology, Dr. Wilson's honors and awards include the National Medal of Science, top honors from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Worldwide Fund for Nature, the National Audubon Society, and Japan's International Prize for Biology. He is on the Board of The Nature Conservancy, Conservation International and the American Museum of Natural History. Consilience, the Unity of Knowledge is his latest book. 3:32 secs T he real work of the 21st century, according to the great Harvard scientist Edward O. Wilson, is to settle humanity down before we wreck the planet. Dr. Wilson says the explosion of the human population promises 8 billion people living on earth within 40 years (as compared to 2 billion in 1900.) It's a vast bottleneck coinciding with a documented worldwide decline in arable land and water. And we people are pushing the rest of life off the face of the earth. But Wilson also offers both hope and plans for action. While Dr. Wilson expects the 21st century will be a scary rush of accelerating change, if and this is a very big "if" if we address our challenges of natural resources, conservation, and human population, we have a chance for a quieter, more secure time for humans and other forms of life on the other side.

30. Sociobiology: Facts, Discussion Forum, And Encyclopedia Article In biology, psychology and sociology social behavior is behavior directed towards society, or taking place between, members of the same species. http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Sociobiology

Home Discussion Topics Dictionary ... Login Sociobiology Sociobiology Topic Home Discussion Definition Overview Sociobiology is a synthesis of scientific disciplines which attempts to explain social behavior Social behavior In biology, psychology and sociology social behavior is behavior directed towards society, or taking place between, members of the same species. Behavior such as predation which involves members of different species is not social... in animal species Species In biology, a species is:* a taxonomic rank or* a unit at that rank .... by considering the Darwinian Neo-Darwinism Neo-Darwinism is a term used to describe the 'modern synthesis' of Darwinian evolution through natural selection with Mendelian genetics, the latter being a set of primary tenets specifying that evolution involves the transmission of characteristics from parent to child through the mechanism of... advantages specific behaviors may have. It is often considered a branch of biology Biology Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy.... and sociology Sociology Sociology is the study of society. It is a social science—a term with which it is sometimes synonymous—that uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop and refine a body of knowledge about human social activity, often with the goal of applying such knowledge to...

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32. Sociobiology - Definition And More From The Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary Definition of word from the MerriamWebster Online Dictionary with audio pronunciations, thesaurus, Word of the Day, and word games. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sociobiology

33. Sociobiology Home Page Welcome to the sociobiology Web Site The serial sociobiology, published by California State University Chico, was founded by its present editor in 1975 to provide a more timely http://www.csuchico.edu/biol/Sociobiology/sociobiologyindex.html

Welcome to the Sociobiology Web Site The serial SOCIOBIOLOGY, published by California State University Chico, was founded by its present editor in 1975 to provide a more timely publication of quality papers by researchers of social animals. The serial has grown substantially since it was first published and as a result of the growth in computer based technologies, improvement in quality has been made as well. Over the years the majority of the papers have dealt with, but are not limited to, the various aspects of the biology of social insects such as termites and ants along with many of the insects associated with them. This web site has been produced to assist in providing insight on current investigations of social animals. Several links have been provided to direct individuals to subscription information and abstracts of articles beginning with volume 39, number 3, 2002.

34. Sociobiology 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 http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/genpsysociobiology.html

Sociobiology Dr. C. George Boeree 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, and 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.

35. Sociobiology - Psychology Wiki sociobiology is a neoDarwinian synthesis of scientific disciplines that attempts to explain social behavior in all species by considering the evolutionary advantages the behaviors http://psychology.wikia.com/wiki/Sociobiology

Wikia Skip to Content Skip to Wiki Navigation Skip to Site Navigation Wikia Navigation Start a wiki Entertainment Fall TV Glee ... Psychology Wiki Psychology Wiki Navigation Random page Popular pages Most visited Newly changed ... Review of General Psychology Random Page Wiki Activity Watchlist Recent changes Talk Sociobiology Edit Read more: Sociology Evolutionary biology Edited by AWeidman View full history Assessment Biopsychology ... Industrial Biological: Behavioural genetics Evolutionary psychology Neuroanatomy Neurochemistry ... Psychopharmacology For the book by E. O. Wilson , see Sociobiology: The New Synthesis Sociobiology is a neo-Darwinian synthesis of scientific disciplines that attempts to explain social behavior in all species by considering the evolutionary advantages the behaviors may have. It is often considered a branch of biology and sociology , but also draws from ethology anthropology evolution zoology , archeology, 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 has become one of the greatest scientific controversies of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, especially in the context of explaining human behavior. Criticism, most notably made by

36. Sociobiology Summary And Analysis Summary | BookRags.com sociobiology summary with 117 pages of lesson plans, quotes, chapter summaries, analysis, encyclopedia entries, essays, research information, and more. http://www.bookrags.com/Sociobiology

37. Sociobiology -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia sociobiology, the systematic study of the biological basis of social behaviour. The term sociobiology was popularized by the American biologist Edward O. Wilson in his book http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/551863/sociobiology

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39. Sociobiology Definition Of Sociobiology In The Free Online Encyclopedia. sociobiology, controversial field that studies how natural selection, previously used only to explain the evolution of physical characteristics, shapes behavior in animals and humans http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/sociobiology

40. E. O. Wilson Sociobiology The New Synthesis Background information on sociobiology The New Synthesis by E. O. Wilson. A work that seeks to extend ideas about the physical evolution of species towards the evolution of http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/scientist/wilson_sociobiology.html

Evolutionary Psychology behaviour Home Famous Scientist - Index > E. O. Wilson Site Map Popular Pages Slide Shows Guest Book ... Download Wisdoms E. O. Wilson 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 the very first paragraph of Sociobiology: The New Synthesis he states his view of life in quite unequivocally reductionistic terms as follows: � 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.

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