Yet a generation
of sociobiologists built their research around the idea of kin selection.
For the purpose
of these sociobiologists, membership in the elite seems to be a matter of income.
Not exact matches
Consider the work
of maverick
sociobiologist Lionel Tiger.
Recently some
of these, calling themselves
sociobiologists, have attracted considerable attention.
I am aware
of no biology department in this country at which a
sociobiologist could be hired today, and very few would even have any interest in hiring a behavioral ecologist.
Groundbreaking
sociobiologist E. O. Wilson argues that group selection is the main driver
of evolution and explains why we need a new intellectual revolution
The mathematics
of inclusive fitness were so unwieldy as to be useless, he argued in a takedown
of the field's elite, published two years ago in the journal Nature with his mathematician colleague Corina Tarnita and the legendary
sociobiologist E. O. Wilson.
Wilson keeps one eye on Gould, who has accused
sociobiologists of confusing plausibility with proof.
Some
sociobiologists argue that an impulse toward violence is written in our genes, but archaeologist Joyce Marcus sees a more modern origin for war in the charred remains
of old stockades in Oaxaca, Mexico.
There haven't been any real - world applications at all that I know
of, and for any phenomenon, you can find
sociobiologists on each side
of it.