Sentences with phrase «of sociobiology»
Wilson does not mince words when assessing opponents to his theories of sociobiology such as Richard Lewontin and Stephen Jay Gould.
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It is the cardinal fallacy of some forms of sociobiology that would reduce all behavior to genes.
The critics of sociobiology used arguments that were often political, but sometimes perilous to the evolution not just of behavior, but of bodies as well.
If you look at the opening pages, I had a diagram showing how a future science of sociobiology would be built.
No hint is given of the fact that we are in the middle of a second renaissance of sociobiology.
The concept «shook the bedrock» of the sociobiology field, says William Hughes, a biologist at the University of Leeds in the U.K.
Back when E. O. Wilson first promoted his newly hatched theory of sociobiology, protesters doused him with a pitcher of water.
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.»
The sound of Edward O. Wilson grinding his axes and expounding his theory of sociobiology (that human nature is the product of selection) has proved too much for some.
But Edward O. Wilson, the Harvard professor of biology who is the father of sociobiology and the world's leading expert on social insects, believes that the virtues which GCMA imbued him with were crucial to forming his character, as a citizen and a scientist.
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.