Sentences with phrase «sociobiology as»

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

This is sociobiology as you've rarely seen it — slowly matured and richly textured, yet with all its abrasiveness intact.

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The company's other media offerings even diverged from the magazine's adult content; it produced movies such as Roman Polanski's Macbeth, Monty Python's And Now For Something Completely Different, and The Naked Ape, based on the classic sociobiology book of the same name.

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

Then there is the reaction launched by Edward O. Wilson with his 1975 book Sociobiology, arguing along with such as Richard Dawkins, author of The Selfish Gene, that nature is trump.

But, at the risk of a little discomfort, let us try another hypothesis, just to see if it has descriptive power as great or even greater than the one favored by sociobiology.

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.

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.

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.

Wilson does not mince words when assessing opponents to his theories of sociobiology such as Richard Lewontin and Stephen Jay Gould.

Sociobiology neatly explains all this male recklessness as a kind of display to attract a mate.

As part of this program they have studied topics including: sociobiology; psychology of learning; behavioral genetics; behavioral physiology; psychopharmacology; ethology; and behavioral endocrinology.