I can not speak for the «academy more generally,» but in biology departments
sociobiology went down to utter defeat.
Not exact matches
Even E. O. Wilson, the «father of
sociobiology,» once wrote that he favors a «scientific humanism» — one that «imposes the heavy burden of individual choice that
goes with intellectual freedom.»
Upon reflection I shall withdraw the adverb «resoundingly» if Professor Hughes withdraws his claim that
sociobiology «
went down to utter defeat.»
Iris Dröscher of the German Primate Centre in Göttingen spent over 1000 hours watching the toilet habits of 14 adult sportive lemurs, and found that family groups
went to the same places to defecate and urinate at different times throughout the night (Behavioral Ecology and
Sociobiology, doi.org/wdg).