Sentences with phrase «in sociobiology»

Michael Shermer believes in sociobiology.

But I'm not so sure I pivoted that much on kin selection in Sociobiology.

Rather, we refer to recent attempts in sociobiology to account for the rise of human culture and religious values such as altruism.

Not exact matches

Whereas the dichotomy of subject and object has been challenged by experiments in modern physics, a Cartesian dualism still provides the philosophical background of modern molecular biology and, more recently, sociobiology.

He not only anticipated some of the now - dominant theories in human sociobiology circles but identified the principles that are now the explicit basis for celebrated feminist social criticism.

But sociobiology tells too banal a story to be able to account for radical altruism — the ethical imperative that leads a person to risk his or her own life in the attempt to save an unknown and unrelated stranger from the danger of death.

Sociobiology seeks to explain human ethical intuitions in terms of inherited patterns of behavior favoring the propagation of at least some of an individual's genes.

Lack of falsifiability was also, to some degree, a problem even in the relatively noncontroversial field of behavioral ecology, from which sociobiology emerged.

Tom Bethell («Against Sociobiology,» January) is to be commended for pointing out the fatal flaw of socio biology and of its latter «day offspring «evolutionary psychology»: the lack of falsifiability of many of the hypotheses proposed in these fields.

In the introduction to the twenty «fifth anniversary edition of his textbook Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, written in December 1999, Edward O. Wilson writes that sociobiology «is a flourishing discipline in zoology,» but, where it pertains to humans, it is «nowadays also called evolutionary psychology.&raquIn the introduction to the twenty «fifth anniversary edition of his textbook Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, written in December 1999, Edward O. Wilson writes that sociobiology «is a flourishing discipline in zoology,» but, where it pertains to humans, it is «nowadays also called evolutionary psychoSociobiology: The New Synthesis, written in December 1999, Edward O. Wilson writes that sociobiology «is a flourishing discipline in zoology,» but, where it pertains to humans, it is «nowadays also called evolutionary psychology.&raquin December 1999, Edward O. Wilson writes that sociobiology «is a flourishing discipline in zoology,» but, where it pertains to humans, it is «nowadays also called evolutionary psychosociobiology «is a flourishing discipline in zoology,» but, where it pertains to humans, it is «nowadays also called evolutionary psychology.&raquin zoology,» but, where it pertains to humans, it is «nowadays also called evolutionary psychology.»

I can not speak for the «academy more generally,» but in biology departments sociobiology went down to utter defeat.

To name just four academics sympathetic to sociobiology at work in the biology departments of American universities: Timothy Goldsmith of Yale teaches a course called «Biological Roots of Human Nature»; William Zimmerman of Amherst teaches the «Evolutionary Biology of Human Social Behavior»; David Sloan Wilson (Department of Biology, SUNY «Binghamton) researches the evolutionary basis of human behavior; and Randy Thornhill at the University of New Mexico coauthored the infamous book on the evolution of rape.

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In 1975 Harvard biologist E. O. Wilson published Sociobiology, perhaps the most powerful refinement of evolutionary theory since On the Origin of Species.

When you published Sociobiology in 1975, you faced enormous resistance, especially to the implication that human nature was genetically based.

The sperm drink had no effect on well - nourished flies — suggesting it is the fluid in it that is beneficial (Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, doi.org/k9v).

The research is published in Springer's journal Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.

His new book, The Social Conquest of Earth, eloquently elaborates upon his hope, first expressed in his monumental work Sociobiology, that science can help us achieve self - understanding and even, perhaps, salvation.

Now Genevieve Jones and colleagues at the University of Cape Town in South Africa, studying the Marion Island albatross colony in the Indian Ocean, have found that 18 per cent of chicks born over three years had an extra-pair sire (Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, DOI: 10.1007 / s00265 -012-1374-8).

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).

The findings are published in Springer's journal Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.

The study by Marcela Méndez - Janovitz and Constantino Macías Garcia is published in Springer's journal Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.

Blumstein and colleagues reported in the journal Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology in 2012 that less social female marmots have greater annual reproductive success than their more social counterparts.

Remarkably, the man who was instrumental in the first renaissance makes the weakest case for sociobiology that I have read for quite a while.

To overcome this additional hazard, the spider has made yet another plan in the form of an ant - proof nest, writes Ximena Nelson of the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and Robert Jackson of the University of Canterbury and the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology in Kenya, in Springer's journal Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.

Then in the 1970s, when Wilson published Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, other Harvard colleagues attacked the idea of analyzing human behavior from an evolutionary perspective as sexist, racist, or worse.

The study, a comprehensive review of research on insects and spiders, was published in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.

The research is published in Springer's journal Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology and uses a laboratory - based experiment to investigate how aspects of associative learning influence how bumble bees find food among different - sized flowers.

All 41 tagged birds checked their target nests a few days ahead of time to fine tune their timing, the team reports this month in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.

Her findings are published in Springer's journal Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.

The study, which appeared in a recent issue of Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, outlines the fluidity of the bird's hierarchical social structure and the role dominance plays among the group.

So says Kyle Morrison of Massey University and the National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research in New Zealand, who led a study published in Springer's journal Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.

When confronted by members of their own species and one other frog species, red strawberry poison dart frogs reacted more violently than green ones, the researchers will report in an upcoming issue of Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.

The study is published in Springer's journal Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology.

The findings suggest that barn owl chicks give hungrier siblings a chance to eat first even when the nest is full of food, the researchers will report in an upcoming issue of Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.

Their findings are published in Springer's journal Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.

The work was published online in the scientific journal Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology on 14 December 2017.

This is according to UK researchers Christopher Watkins of Abertay University and Benedict Jones of the University of Glasgow, in Springer's journal Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.

Overall, Fuxjager said these findings, recently published in the journal Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, provide insight into aggressive behavior in birds in general and how individuals coordinate behavior to accomplish shared goals or tasks.

But, in new study published in the journal Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, researchers found that the size of male pipefish matters too.

The study, published in the journal Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology, combines mathematical modelling with an analysis of population changes in 221 bird and 43 bumblebee species worldwide.

In it he describes sociobiology as «the systematic study of the biological basis of all social behavior.»

One of the century's most influential scientists and thinkers, Edward O. Wilson first came to widespread attention with the publication of his landmark book Sociobiology: The New Synthesis in 1975.

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A new paper in Springer's journal Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology explores lifetime reproductive patterns in African elephants.

When Dennett moves into ethics and morality in the final section of his book, he strays into an area in which the most vitriolic words have been exchanged — that of sociobiology.

Without the chemical cues provided by the urine, smaller fish often tried to attack their larger opponents, the team reports this month in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.

The study was recently published in the journal Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.

The article «Female house mice initially shun infected males, but do not avoid mating with them», by Sarah M. Zala, Amber Bilak, Michael Perkins, Wayne K. Potts and Dustin J. Penn was published in the journal Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.

Alice Baniel, Guy Cowlishaw, and Elise Huchard, «Stability and strength of male - female associations in a promiscuous primate society», Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, vol.