Sociobiology

If we restrict our attention to the study of social behavior, however -- what E.O. Wilson would later call Sociobiology -- it is paramount.

David Sloan Wilson: Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection II: The Original Problem 2009

I therefore propose the slogan "Take back the terms!" to restore terms such as "Sociobiology" and "Evolutionary Psychology" to their proper broad definitions.

David Sloan Wilson: Evolutionary Psychology and the Public Media: Rekindling the Romance 2009

One of the profiles in that book is of E.O. Wilson, who wrote the book "Sociobiology," which was one of the earliest attempts to apply this to human beings, was much criticized, sometimes for good reasons.

The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology 1995

In response to Against "Sociobiology" (November 13, 1975)

For Sociobiology Wilson, Edward O. 1975

Wilson wrote "Sociobiology" while at Harvard University, where he got his post-graduate degree and taught for 40 years.

Local News from Tuscaloosa News 2010

"Sociobiology", the study of the social organisation of biological entities, was also the subject of an influential book by E O Wilson (1980).

Jennifer Marohasy 2009

Although voted the most important book on animal behavior of all time by officers and fellows of the international Animal Behavior Society, Sociobiology became the object of bitter attacks by social scientists and other scholars, even from his former collaborator Richard Lewontin.

SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011

Edward O. Wilson's monumental book on the evolution of sociality, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis is an excellent resource for anyone interested in this topic.

At What Level did this Evolve? 2009

You can read about it in Edward O. Wilson's magisterial synthesis of the field, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, published in 1975 by Harvard University Press.

At What Level did this Evolve? 2009

In a letter to The New York Review of Books, Lewontin and the Harvard evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould were among a dozen professors, doctors, and students who condemned Sociobiology as providing “a genetic justification of the status quo and of existing privileges for certain groups according to class, race, or sex.”

SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011