1. Sociobiology Explains major concepts of sociobiology, including Ethology, Evolution, Attraction, Sexual Dimorphism, Category Science Biology sociobiology......sociobiology. C. George Boeree. Over time, Wilson's sociobiology found more andmore supporters among biologists, psychologists, and even anthropologists. 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.

2. Great Ideas In Personality - Sociobiology Read overviews of Philip Kitcher and R.C. Lewontin and criticisms of their work. The introduction describes differences between narrow and broad sociobiology. sociobiology. sociobiology. sociobiology states that genetics is the sole factor responsible for the behavior in humans http://www.psych.nwu.edu/~sengupta/sociob.html

3. FT January 2001: Against Sociobiology Tom Bethell speculates on what future generations will make of the controversy surrounding human sociobio Category Science Biology sociobiology......Against sociobiology. Tom Bethell. Copyright (c 24. To future generations,the sociobiology Wars may come as something of a puzzle. The http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft0101/articles/bethell.html

Against Sociobiology Tom Bethell To future generations, the Sociobiology Wars may come as something of a puzzle. The shared beliefs of the disputants were so much more impressive than their disagreements that historians may wonder what the fuss was about. Perhaps the controversy will come to resemble the Wars of the Roses, all of whose contestants believed in the divine right of kings. Their differing opinions as to succession seem rather trivial by comparison. In the case of sociobiology, all the principal actors accept the premise of materialism, sometimes called naturalism. They believe, or at least for the purposes of doing science they believe, that matter in motion is all that exists, and that mind and consciousness are merely special configurations of that matter. Anyone who believes this must, as a matter of logical necessity, also believe in evolution. No digging for fossils, no test tubes or microscopes, no further experiments are needed. For birds, bats, and bees do exist. They came into existence somehow. Your consistent materialist has no choice but to allow that, yes, molecules in motion succeeded, over the eons, in whirling themselves into ever more complex conglomerations, some of them called bats, some birds, some bees. He “knows” that is true, not because he sees it in the genes, or in the lab, or in the fossils, but because it is embedded in his philosophy. Sociobiology extended Darwinian insights about bodies to behavior, and may be thought of as having revived the old controversy about nature and nurture. Its participants were, mostly, Harvard professors, and included some of the best science writers of our day. Its two main antagonists, Edward O. Wilson and Richard C. Lewontin, both born in 1929, occupied offices one floor apart in Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology. For a while, they didn’t speak in the elevator. Oddly enough, Wilson, the naturalist, was on the side of the genes, while Lewontin, the geneticist, was on the side of the environment (to oversimplify). A frequent contributor to the

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5. Cogprints - Subject: Sociobiology Original scientific papers on the subject. http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/view-bio-socio.html

Cogprints Home About Browse Search ... Help Subject: Sociobiology Subject Areas Biology Sociobiology Number of records: American Journal of Physical Anthropology Chen, Audrey C. and German, Craig and Zaidel, Dahlia W. (1997) Brain asymmetry and facial attractiveness: Facial beauty is not simply in the eye of the beholder.. Neuropsychologia Moore, Jim (1983) Carrying capacity, cycles, and culture. ... Psycoloquy This list was generated on Tue Mar 18 14:42:14 GMT 2003 Cogprints Editor: cogprints@ecs.soton.ac.uk Cogprints Technical Administrator: cogprints-admin@ecs.soton.ac.uk

6. Great Ideas In Personality--Evolutionary Psychology Introduction to the evolutionary approach to human nature, including Wilson's ladder and other concepts in sociobiology. 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. THE PYTHAGOREAN PERSPECTIVE: The Arts And Sociobiology A paper exploring the idea that cultural evolution is a manifestation of biological evolution. http://www.percepp.demon.co.uk/pythagor.htm

Language and Evolution: Homepage Robin Allott THE PYTHAGOREAN PERSPECTIVE The Arts and Sociobiology 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?

8. Great Ideas In Personality--Sociobiology This page deals with evolutionary psychology, an evolutionary approach to human nature. another gene" (Konner, 1985, p. 48). sociobiology (of which evolutionary psychology is a subfield that particularly http://www.personalityresearch.org/sociobiology.html

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

Academics Humanities Social Sciences Sciences Theology ... Classes Departments Current Issues Publications Conferences/Events Apologetics ... What's New Special Interest Past Features Other Sites Help LU About LU ... Feedback Navigation Site Map Site Index Advanced Search Browsing Help ... LU Home LU Updates Receive LU-Announce Probe Ministries Sociobiology: Evolution, Genes and Morality Raymond Bohlin, Ph.D. In 1981 I wrote an article for Christianity Today , which they titled "Sociobiology: Cloned from the Gene Cult."(1) At the time I was fresh from a graduate program in population genetics and had participated in two graduate seminars on the subject of sociobiology. You might be thinking, "What in the world is sociobiology, and why should I care?" That's a good question. Sociobiology explores the biological basis of all social behavior, including morality. You should care because sociobiologists are claiming that all moral and religious systems, including Christianity, exist simply because they help promote the survival and reproduction of the group. These sociobiologists, otherwise known as evolutionary ethicists , claim to be able to explain the existence of every major world religion or belief system, including Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and even Marxism and secular humanism, in terms of natural selection and evolution. E. O. Wilson, a Harvard biologist and major advocate of sociobiology, claims that scientific materialism (a fully evolutionary world view) will eventually overcome both traditional religion and any other secular ideology. While Wilson does admit that religion in some form will always exist, he suggests that theology as an explanatory discipline will cease to exist.

10. Animal Behavior & Evolutionary Psychology -  Lecture 1, Page 1 Lecture on sociobiological behavior based on experimental animal observation from McMaster University. http://www.science.mcmaster.ca/psychology/psych1a6/1aa3/EvoPsych/lec1-1.htm

Animal behavior combines approaches from two fields: It combines the laboratory experimental approach of comparative psychology with the field observational approach of ethology , a branch of biology. Ethological observational work gives us information about what animals do, in what order, and under what conditions. It tells us little or nothing (directly) about the causes of that behavior. Comparative psychology studies the factors that determine an animal's behavior, but it's focus on laboratory research means that it often does not see animals in their natural habitats. Nikko Tinbergen, one of the 'fathers' of ethology (and, along with Konrad Lorenz, the winner of a Nobel prize for his work in the area) argued that there are really only four basic questions that we can ask about any behavior. (Note that the ontogeny of a behavior is its development over time in the individual.) Tinbergen's four questions may not seem like much, but they actually open a world of questions when applied to the specific behaviors of hundreds (or thousands) of different species. Some of these specific questions are listed in the graphics to the left and below. Back to the top of the page

11. Sociobiology / Evolutionary Psychology Lecture slides on socialization emphasizing human development theories of Spitz, Mead, Cooley, Freud, Piaget, Kolhberg, and Bandura, from NW Missouri State University. http://www.nwmissouri.edu/nwcourses/martin/general/socialization/sld004.htm

12. Sociobiology: The New Synthesis By E. O. Wilson Features a profile of E.O. Wilson's rereleased "sociobiology The New Synthesis." Includes quotes from reviewers and peers. "A science of sociobiology, if coupled with neurophysiology, might transform the insights of ancient religions into a http://www.2think.org/sociobiology.shtml

Search the Web. Type it and go! Edward Osborne Wilson Sociobiology: The New Synthesis "A science of sociobiology, if coupled with neurophysiology, might transform the insights of ancient religions into a precise account of the evolutionary origin of ethics and hence explain the reasons why we make certain moral choices instead of others at particular times." (p. 129) A big book gets even bigger. With over 700 jumbo sized pages of small, double columned print this is not a text that one can plow through in a week or two. Despite its size Sociobiology hasn't been expanded and updated in the past 25+ years (with the exception of Wilson's new 4 page introduction). Even with the vast amount of more recent research, Sociobiology is still worth reading. It will remain a timeless classic and constantly referred to work throughout the foreseeable future. Example after example through the entire book of various species demonstrating certain behaviors make Sociobiology almost as entertaining as it is fascinating which is unusual for something that on the surface appears to be a textbook of sorts. If the facts of the social behaviors of these species aren't intriguing enough for you then the novel and clever ways in which scientists have discovered these traits via careful observation and/or ingenious experiment will. The chapter on aggression is very interesting. It has been demonstrated that species far less conscious than humans are genetically programmed to be aggressive (via hormones like catecholamine) when crowded. Although the chapter isn't about

13. Sociobiology A brief historical perspective from Southern Arkansas University.Category Science Biology sociobiology......sociobiology. Updated 1/28/01. sociobiology, in its most recent form,dates from the 1970s and the work of Edward O. Wilson. However http://peace.saumag.edu/faculty/Kardas/Courses/GPWeiten/C1Intro/Sociobiology.htm

Sociobiology Updated: Sociobiology, in its most recent form, dates from the 1970s and the work of Edward O. Wilson. However, the roots of sociobiology are older. The first use of the term sociobiology likely dates to the work of Warder C. Allee, Alfred E. Emerson, and their associates in their 1949 book, Principles of Animal Ecology. Sociobiogists study the behavior of social animals, including humans. Sociobiology developed from studies in population biology and genetics. Research in the social insects, especially ants and honey bees, had shown that the old Darwinian maxim of individual selection, of individuals working for their own reproductive success, did not seem to apply to those groups. The worker castes of those species do not reproduce; yet, their behavior in defense of their nests was tenacious and often life-threatening to the defenders. How could such behavior be explained? The answers began to crystallize when Hamilton (1964) developed the concept of inclusive fitness. Inclusive fitness incorporated not only one's own reproductive success, but also the reproductive success of relatives. In the social insects, all of the workers born of the same queen are full sisters, but, they are all even more closely related to their mother, the queen. So, if one transfers the logic of evolution from the individual to genes, then the behavior of social insects begins to make sense. When workers die in defense of their nests, they are more likely to increase the likelihood of their genes' survival, even though they died in the effort.

14. Sociobiology - Encyclopedia Article From Britannica.com Search sociobiology at Britannica.com for the Web's best sites, news and magazine articles, and related products. http://www.britannica.com/seo/s/sociobiology

Search sociobiology at Britannica.com for the Web's best sites, news and magazine articles, and related products. To view the complete article, sign up for Britannica's premium service - 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 Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (1975). Sociobiology attempts to understand and explain animal (and human) social behaviour in the light of natural selection and other ... Need more? Complete articles are available to premium service members. Information on site licenses is also available. About Us Advertise With Us Syndication International Publishing ... Help

15. Exorcising Sociobiology By Paul R. Gross Biologist Paul Gross on the relationship between sociobiology and recent scandals in anthropology.Category Science Biology sociobiology......Exorcising sociobiology by Paul R. Gross. In the summer of 1975, EO Wilson, thedistinguished Harvard zoologist, published sociobiology The New Synthesis. http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/19/feb01/pgross.htm

Exorcising sociobiology by Paul R. Gross Click to buy the book. I Thirty years ago the distinction between technical disagreements and moral-political warfare began to dissolve. A whole generation of students and teachers became convinced that everything bad people In the summer of 1975, E. O. Wilson, the distinguished Harvard zoologist, published Sociobiology: The New Synthesis . This was a work of exemplary scientific scholarship, a weaving together of threads from many biological subdisciplines. In some of those Wilson was himself already a leader: population biology, ecology, evolution, animal behavior. He was the authority on an enormous group of social animals: the ants. His purpose was to show that results and methods were already sufficient for a systematic account of animal social behavior and for expanded new research on the hard science of it. Scores of qualified readers quickly gave praise and had no qualms about the closing chapter, in which Wilson extrapolated from his findings to speculate about human social behavior. He was laying out a program for future research, as well as recording achievements. No serious scientist denies that humans are at least animals. This part of

16. ITEST BULLETIN --- SUMMER, 1997 Dr. Richard J. Blackwell Department of Philosophy St. Louis University. This paper was presented at Category Science Biology sociobiology......sociobiology THE NEW RELIGION. Following his own advice, he published fouryears later his enormous study entitled sociobiology The New Synthesis. http://itest.slu.edu/articles/90s/blackwell2.html

SOCIOBIOLOGY: THE NEW RELIGION Dr. Richard J. Blackwell Department of Philosophy St. Louis University [This paper was presented at the ITEST Conference on The State of the Art in March, 1980. Dr. Blackwell is well versed in the philosophy of science and has written many papers on various aspects of that field.] In 1971 E.O. Wilson, a prominent entomologist at Harvard, published a book entitled The Insect Societies . In the last chapter of that book Wilson suggested that it may be fruitful to attempt to extend to the world of vertebrate animals the set of principles which he had found to be operative in the intricate behaviors of social insects. Following his own advice, he published four years later his enormous study entitled Sociobiology: The New Synthesis . The twenty-seventh and last chapter of that book recommended the fur- ther extension of these same principles to the human species. The result was a third book, On Human Nature , which appeared in 1978.

17. Animal And Human Behavior - Paul J. Watson Research and teaching in animal and human behavior by Dr. Paul J. Watson, University of New Mexico Category Science Biology sociobiology...... spider Linyphia litigiosa (Linyphiidae). Behavioral Ecology and sociobiology26,7790. Watson, PJ 1991. Multiple paternity and first http://biology.unm.edu/biology/pwatson/public_html/pjw_cv.htm

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18. Sociobiology: Human Behavior And Evolution A useful bibliography.Category Science Biology sociobiology......The sociobiology Human Behavior and Evolution. Defenders of the Truth The Battlefor Science in the sociobiology Debate and Beyond by Ullica Segerstrale 2000. http://home1.gte.net/ericjw1/sociobiology.html

The Sociobiology: Human Behavior and Evolution This guide contains bibliographic references and links to internet resources for the application sociobiological principles in anthropology. Adaptation and Human Behavior: An Anthropological Perspective by Lee Cronk, Napoleon Chagnon, William Irons (Editors) 2000 Cycles of Contingency: Developmental Systems and Evolution by Susan Oyama, Paul E. Griffiths, Russell D. Gray (Editors) 2000 The Dangerous Passion: Why Jealousy is as Necessary as Love and Sex by David M. Buss 2000 A Darwinian Left: Politics, Evolution, and Cooperation by Peter Singer 2000 Defenders of the Truth: The Battle for Science in the Sociobiology Debate and Beyond by Ullica Segerstrale 2000 Design for a Life: How Behavior Develops by Patrick Bateson, Paul Martin 2000 Disseminating Darwinism: The Role of Place, Race, Religion, and Gender by Ronald L. Numbers, John Stenhouse (Editors) 2000 The Evolution of Cognition by Cecelia Heyes, Ludwig Huber (Editors) 2000 Evolution and Human Behavior: Darwinian Perspectives on Human Nature by John Cartwright 2000 Evolutionary Origins of Morality: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives by Leonard D. Katz (Editor) 2000

19. Sociobiology sociobiology, in its most recent form, dates from the 1970s and the work of Edward O. Wilson. However, the roots of sociobiology are older. http://www.peace.saumag.edu/faculty/Kardas/Courses/GPWeiten/C1Intro/Sociobiology

Sociobiology Updated: Sociobiology, in its most recent form, dates from the 1970s and the work of Edward O. Wilson. However, the roots of sociobiology are older. The first use of the term sociobiology likely dates to the work of Warder C. Allee, Alfred E. Emerson, and their associates in their 1949 book, Principles of Animal Ecology. Sociobiogists study the behavior of social animals, including humans. Sociobiology developed from studies in population biology and genetics. Research in the social insects, especially ants and honey bees, had shown that the old Darwinian maxim of individual selection, of individuals working for their own reproductive success, did not seem to apply to those groups. The worker castes of those species do not reproduce; yet, their behavior in defense of their nests was tenacious and often life-threatening to the defenders. How could such behavior be explained? The answers began to crystallize when Hamilton (1964) developed the concept of inclusive fitness. Inclusive fitness incorporated not only one's own reproductive success, but also the reproductive success of relatives. In the social insects, all of the workers born of the same queen are full sisters, but, they are all even more closely related to their mother, the queen. So, if one transfers the logic of evolution from the individual to genes, then the behavior of social insects begins to make sense. When workers die in defense of their nests, they are more likely to increase the likelihood of their genes' survival, even though they died in the effort.

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