Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! Publication date Usage Public Domain Mark 1. When this classic work was first published in , it created a new discipline and started a tumultuous round in the age-old nature versus nurture debate. The controversy surrounding the book's publication--and surrounding its central claim that human social behavior has a biological foundation--reverberates to this day. In the introduction to this twenty-fifth anniversary edition, Edward O.
Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! Includes bibliographical references p. Social evolution. The morality of the gene ; Elementary concepts of sociobiology ; The prime movers of social evolution ; The relevant principles of population biology ; Group selection and altruism -- Pt.
Social mechanisms. Group size, reproduction, and time-energy budgets ; The development and modification of social behavior ; Communication: Basic principles ; Communication: Functions and complex systems ; Communication: Origins and evolution ; Aggression ; Social spacing, including territory ; Dominance systems ; Roles and castes ; Sex and society ; Parental care ; Social symbioses -- Pt. The social species. When this classic work was first published in , it created a new discipline and started a tumultuous round in the age-old nature versus nurture debate.
Although voted by officers and fellows of the international Animal Behavior Society the most important book on animal behavior of all time, Sociobiology is probably more widely known as the object of bitter attacks by social scientists and other scholars who opposed its claim that human social behavior, indeed human nature, has a biological foundation. The controversy surrounding the publication of the book reverberates to the present day.
Wilson shows how research in human genetics and neuroscience has strengthened the case for a biological understanding of human nature. Human sociobiology, now often called evolutionary psychology, has in the last quarter of a century emerged as its own field of study, drawing on theory and data from both biology and the social sciences.
For its still fresh and beautifully illustrated descriptions of animal societies, and its importance as a crucial step forward in the understanding of human beings, this anniversary edition of Sociobiology: The New Synthesis will be welcomed by a new generation of students and scholars in all branches of learning. Biology and other natural sciences. ISBN Falli omnesque vivendum eos ad, ei hinc diceret eos.
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