Sentences with word «sociobiologist»

Yet a generation of sociobiologists built their research around the idea of kin selection.

A mechanistic sociobiologist argues that individual human limitations imposed by genes place constraints on society.

In the 1970s, Harvard University sociobiologist E. O. Wilson proposed that eusocial communities evolved because they were one big, happy family: The workers didn't mind being celibate because they closely shared their DNA with their sisters, some of whom would eventually become queens and mate, passing on these genes.

From this view, the people who best describe what the End of History would have to be like are certain sociobiologists or DARWINIAN CONSERVATIVES.

Thus, Haught rejects sociobiologists» claims to be able to explain morality.

Yet for lauded sociobiologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, Yates» situation brought to light a much larger discussion — why was a psychologically distressed mother left to care for her children without any social or institutional support?

Renowned sociobiologists and ant experts E. O. Wilson and Bert Hölldobler go so far as to call the most advanced insect societies — like the leaf - cutting ants, which cultivate fungus in air - conditioned nests with their own hygiene and waste disposal systems — «civilized.»

Groundbreaking sociobiologist E. O. Wilson argues that group selection is the main driver of evolution and explains why we need a new intellectual revolution

Accepted wisdom among sociobiologists has always been that such policing happens because workers are more related (and hence more loyal) to their queen's offspring than to other workers» sons.

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.

Sociobiologists said, well, that's what you should expect, since breeding with a close relative means more of your genes will be present in the next generation.

Sociobiologist Lionel Tiger has observed that «contraception causes abortion,» [22] and Planned Parenthood data indicates he is correct.

Recently some of these, calling themselves sociobiologists, have attracted considerable attention.

He is a distinguished Harvard biologist and popular teacher, Pulitzer Prize - winning writer, sociobiologist, naturalist, authority on entomology and outspoken advocate for environmental responsibility and species diversity.

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.

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.

But then along came the sociobiologists — students of the evolution of behaviour — and with them the notion that natural selection acted neither on the individual nor on the group but on the irreducible unit of life, the gene.