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Sociobiology : Sense or Nonsense? (Episteme ; v. 8) by Michael Ruse, 1979-03-15 E.O. Wilson and B.F. Skinner: A Dialogue Between Sociobiology and Radical Behaviorism by Paul Naour, 2009-03-19 The Divine Archetype: The Sociobiology and Psychology of Religion by Brant Wenegrat, 1989-10 The Advent of Sociobiology Sheds New Light on Animal Societies: An entry from Gale's <i>Science and Its Times</i> by Richard Weikart, 2001 Sociobiology: An entry from Macmillan Reference USA's <i>Macmillan Reference USA Science Library: Biology</i> by Diane K. Angell, 2002 Doing without Adam and Eve: Sociobiology and Original Sin.(Book Review)(Brief Article): An article from: Theological Studies by John R. Sachs, 2003-12-01 Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology: Sociobiology by Gale Reference Team, 2001-01-01 HUMAN NATURE AND HISTORY: A RESPONSE TO SOCIOBIOLOGY Sociobiology and the Human Demension by Georg Breuer, 1982 SOCIOBIOLOGY: An entry from Macmillan Reference USA's <i>Encyclopedia of Population</i> by John Alcock, 2003 Sociobiology: An entry from Thomson Gale's <i>Gale Encyclopedia of Science, 3rd ed.</i> Sociobiology - 1980 publication by dward Osborn Wlson, 1980 SOCIOBIOLOGY AND EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY: DARWINISM AND RELIGION: An entry from Macmillan Reference USA's <i>Encyclopedia of Religion</i> by Mikael Stenmark, 2005 Social Meaning of Modern Biology: From Social Darwinismm to Sociobiology

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81. Sociobiology Books And Articles - Research Sociobiology At Questia
    sociobiology Scholarly books and articles on sociobiology at Questia, world s largest online library and research service. Subscribe now and do better  
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82. Sociobiology. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
    sociobiology. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 200105.  
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    Extractions: Select Search All Bartleby.com All Reference Columbia Encyclopedia World History Encyclopedia Cultural Literacy World Factbook Columbia Gazetteer American Heritage Coll. Dictionary Roget's Thesauri Roget's II: Thesaurus Roget's Int'l Thesaurus Quotations Bartlett's Quotations Columbia Quotations Simpson's Quotations Respectfully Quoted English Usage Modern Usage American English Fowler's King's English Strunk's Style Mencken's Language Cambridge History The King James Bible Oxford Shakespeare Gray's Anatomy Farmer's Cookbook Post's Etiquette Bulfinch's Mythology Frazer's Golden Bough All Verse Anthologies Dickinson, E. Eliot, T.S. Frost, R. Hopkins, G.M. Keats, J. Lawrence, D.H. Masters, E.L. Sandburg, C. Sassoon, S. Whitman, W. Wordsworth, W. Yeats, W.B. All Nonfiction Harvard Classics American Essays Einstein's Relativity Grant, U.S. Roosevelt, T. Wells's History Presidential Inaugurals All Fiction Shelf of Fiction Ghost Stories Short Stories Shaw, G.B. Stein, G. Stevenson, R.L. Wells, H.G. Reference Columbia Encyclopedia PREVIOUS NEXT ... BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. sociobiology controversial field that studies how natural selection, previously used only to explain the evolution of physical characteristics, shapes behavior in animals and humans. The theory has contributed to the understanding of certain evolutionary traits in the animal world, such as how instinctive parental behaviors of animals are determined in part by the need to ensure survival of offspring. A related aspect of sociobiology deals with altruistic behaviors in general. In a theory called kin selection, animals that behave altruistically would have their genes passed on by helping relatives who share their genes survive to reproduce, just as they would by producing offspring of their own.

83. Sociobiology. The New Dictionary Of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002
    sociobiology. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002.  
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    Extractions: Select Search All Bartleby.com All Reference Columbia Encyclopedia World History Encyclopedia Cultural Literacy World Factbook Columbia Gazetteer American Heritage Coll. Dictionary Roget's Thesauri Roget's II: Thesaurus Roget's Int'l Thesaurus Quotations Bartlett's Quotations Columbia Quotations Simpson's Quotations Respectfully Quoted English Usage Modern Usage American English Fowler's King's English Strunk's Style Mencken's Language Cambridge History The King James Bible Oxford Shakespeare Gray's Anatomy Farmer's Cookbook Post's Etiquette Bulfinch's Mythology Frazer's Golden Bough All Verse Anthologies Dickinson, E. Eliot, T.S. Frost, R. Hopkins, G.M. Keats, J. Lawrence, D.H. Masters, E.L. Sandburg, C. Sassoon, S. Whitman, W. Wordsworth, W. Yeats, W.B. All Nonfiction Harvard Classics American Essays Einstein's Relativity Grant, U.S. Roosevelt, T. Wells's History Presidential Inaugurals All Fiction Shelf of Fiction Ghost Stories Short Stories Shaw, G.B. Stein, G. Stevenson, R.L. Wells, H.G. Reference The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy Life Sciences PREVIOUS ... BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. sociobiology (soh-see-oh-beye- OL -uh-jee) An area of inquiry in biology , still somewhat controversial but gaining wider acceptance. Its central tenet is that many human behavioral and social traits are genetically inherited and are thus determined by genetic makeup and not culture.

84. Behavioral Ecology And Sociobiology
    Behavioral ecology and sociobiology of insects. Karen Warkentin Ecology, Behavior and Evolution Physiology, Endocrinology and Reproduction  
    http://www.bu.edu/biology/Research_Interests/behav_eco_and_soc.html

85. BZ 480 - Sociobiology And Behavior Of Dogs | Colorado State Continuing Education
    Evening Credit. BZ 480 sociobiology and Behavior of Dogs 3 credits / Fall 2005. Prerequisite. LSCC 102 (Attributes of Living System) and LS 103 (Biology  
    http://www.learn.colostate.edu/courses/course.asp?course=BZ 480

86. Stalking The Wild Taboo - Science And Ideology
    Let me say that sociobiology, the study of the biological basis of social Shortly after the publication of sociobiology, Richard Lewontin organized  
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    Extractions: Vol. 8, Academic Questions Edward O. Wilson is Pellegrino University Professor at Harvard University and Curator in Entomology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology (Agassiz Museum), Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138. Presented here is his keynote address to the November 1994 convention of the National Association of Scholars in Cambridge, MA. A portion was taken in slightly modified form from Professor Wilson's autobiography, Naturalist (Washington, D.C. and Covelo, Calif.: Island Press-Shearwater Books, 1994). I have composed this text with considerable humility because it is addressed to scholars and scientists many of whom speak more authoritatively on the history and philosophy of science than I. My own preferred reading list on the subject would include Gerald Holton's Science and Anti-Science and the wonderfully scorching book, Higher Superstition by Paul Gross and Norman Levitt. For a full reading list that could compose a complete college course on the subject, I would add John Passmore's Science and Its Critics , published in 1978, and Steven Weinberg's adamantine image of the power and ideology-demolishing reach of modern physics in his book Dreams of a Final Theory . In many ways I would defer to these authors. I hope they nonetheless might agree with me that the nobility of science as a human endeavor was well encapsulated by the physicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar when he used the Icarus metaphor in praise of Sir Arthur Eddington. He said, "Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings." And on the appropriateness of the rosette of the National Academy of Sciences, the other NAS, that is splendidly symbolic in this sense: the gold of science is placed solidly in the center, surrounded by the purple of natural philosophy. Members are elected primarily or solely on the basis of objective discoveries they have made, expressible in clear declarative sentences, and not by any ideological test.

87. IngentaConnect Publication: Ethology And Sociobiology
    Ethology and sociobiology. ISSN 01623095. Elsevier Science logo. Publisher Elsevier Science. 13 issues are available electronically  
    http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/els/01623095

88. Sociobiology & Free Will 12/3/00
    sociobiology is also known as Evolutionary Psychology, Being radically scientific, sociobiology hasn’t any use for the traditional idea that behind the  
    http://www.revjm.com/sociobiowill.htm
    
    Extractions: A response to the following sermon: A Scientist Replies: An email conversation between Rev. Joel and Tom Clark Readings: Name the Oldest Member of Your Family [Kalamu Ya Salaam] Everything I Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten [Robert Fulghum] Sermon: Sociobiology, Spirituality, and Free Will When I wake in the morning, after I have my coffee, I look at my calendar and begin to plan my day. It appears to me, as I plan and drink my coffee, that I am making decisions – that I have choices about what I will do, that my actions that day are voluntary. Our entire society is based upon this idea that we have a choice over how we behave. If we drive faster than the speed limit, and a police office sees us speeding, that office will stop us and give us a ticket, a fine, and the purpose of that fine is to help us choose not to speed, but to choose instead to drive more slowly. In our Western Culture, we think of this ability to make choices about our lives as a secular, universally accepted principle: we assume human beings have a freedom of will.

89. Sociobiology -- Facts, Info, And Encyclopedia Article
    sociobiology is a branch of (The science that studies living organisms) Within the study of humans, sociobiology is closely linked to the field of  
    http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/s/so/sociobiology.htm
    
    Extractions: Sociobiology is a branch of (The science that studies living organisms) biology and also (The study and classification of human societies) sociology that attempts to throw light upon (Manner of acting or conducting yourself) behavior in both (Any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae) human and non-human (Click link for more info and facts about societies) societies in terms of evolutionary advantage or (The branch of military science dealing with military command and the planning and conduct of a war) strategy . It uses techniques from (The branch of zoology that studies the behavior of animals in their natural habitats) ethology ((biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms) evolution (The study and classification of human societies) sociology , and (Click link for more info and facts about population genetics) population genetics . Within the study of humans, Sociobiology is closely linked to the field of (Click link for more info and facts about evolutionary psychology) evolutionary psychology

90. Kids.net.au - Encyclopedia Sociobiology -
    sociobiology is a branch of biology that attempts to explain animal behavior The term sociobiology was coined by Edward Osborne Wilson in the 1970s.  
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    Extractions: Web kids.net.au Thesaurus Dictionary Kids Categories Encyclopedia ... Contents Sociobiology is a branch of biology that attempts to explain animal behavior and social structures in terms of evolutionary advantage or strategy. It uses techniques from ethology evolution and population genetics The term 'sociobiology' was coined by Edward Osborne Wilson in the 1970s. He wrote the famous Sociobiology: The New Synthesis . Sociobiology attempts to explain the evolutionary mechanics behind social behaviors such as altruism aggression , and nurturance. Individual genetic advantage fails to explain many social behaviors. However, genetic evolution appears to act on social groups. The mechanisms that select in groups are statistical and can be harder to grasp than individual selection. The analytical processes of sociobiology, use paradigms and population statistics similar to actuarial analyses of the insurance industry or game theory A vivid example of altruism is when a serviceman throws himself onto a hand grenade to save his buddies. A genetic trait encouranging this "altruism" may help his society expand its gene pool at the expense of societies that lack this trait. So, this genetic trait will survive and increase even though it destroys individuals Colin Turnbull found another suporting example (described in The Mountain People ) about an African tribe, the "Ik," which he said so lacked altruism that the society lost battles with neighboring tribes.

91. Sociobiology - Definition Of Sociobiology In Encyclopedia
    sociobiology is a branch of biology that attempts to throw light upon animal behavior and social structures in terms of evolutionary advantage or strategy.  
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    Extractions: Sociobiology is a branch of biology that attempts to throw light upon animal behavior and social structures in terms of evolutionary advantage or strategy . It uses techniques from ethology evolution and population genetics The term "sociobiology" was coined by E. O. Wilson in with the publication of his famous book Sociobiology: The New Synthesis . Sociobiology attempts to explain the evolutionary mechanics behind social behaviors such as altruism aggression , and nurturance. Wilson's book sparked one of the greatest scientific controversies of the 20th century Contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Sociobiological theory 6 External links Sociobiologists do not believe that animal or human behaviour can be explained entirely by " cultural " or " environmental " factors. They believe that in order to fully understand behaviour it must be analyzed with some focus on its evolutionary origins. If Darwin 's theory of natural selection is accepted, then evolved behavioural mechanisms that allowed an

92. The New Atlantis - The Rise And Fall Of Sociobiology - Peter A. Lawler
    sociobiology is the belief that human beings have real natures and This is the partial truth of sociobiology, if not the whole truth about being human.  
    http://www.thenewatlantis.com/archive/1/lawler.htm
    
    Extractions: The Rise and Fall of Sociobiology Peter Augustine Lawler hree views of the relationship between human beings and nature have been hugely influential in recent decades: social constructionism, sociobiology, and biotechnology. Each contains a good deal of truth, and each is still an influential force today. But like all popularized science, these big pictures gain clarity by distorting reality. Each presents part of the truth about being human by disfiguring the whole. Social constructionism is the belief that human nature does not matter or exist, and that most of what we believe about human nature is actually the product of human institutions and cultures, and therefore open to be changed. Sociobiology is the belief that human beings have real natures and natural purposes, but natures and purposes that are fully intelligible through evolution and not really different from those of the other animals. Biotechnology is not so much a belief but a project, which involves using our knowledge of human biology to improve human life and perhaps remake human nature. It thus presumes at least some measure of discontent with what we are now, as well as the existence of an objective biological nature (or “system”) which it can reliably manipulate.

93. Biology Sociobiology
    sociobiology and Ethology site, featuring research on the evolution of altruistic Against sociobiology . A Thumbshots Preview Against sociobiology  
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94. Boston Review | H. Allen Orr: The Softer Side Of Sociobiology
    The Softer Side of sociobiology. Why do people cooperate? Why are we nice to each other? It s all in the genes, a new book claims.  
    http://www.bostonreview.net/br22.5/orr.html
    
    Extractions: Viking Penguin, $24.95 If you've ever read Sinclair Lewis's Arrowsmith , you surely recall Dr. Tubbs. The ur -technocrat who understood precious little of the science done in the institute he ran, the vapid Tubbs would pop into a lab just long enough to announce that he was off to yet another conference on teamwork in science. For cooperation, he invariably added, was the next "Real Big Thing in Science." Tubbs was not only a believable character (in a novel desperately short of them), he was a prophetic one. The ratio of Tubbses to Arrowsmiths in science of technically clueless hangers-on to those who sit before a lab benchhas grown ever more lop-sided since Lewis's time. But Tubbs was prophetic in another way too. Cooperation, it seems

95. Sociobiology – Form Of Study Founded Upon The Work Of WD Hamilton
    sociobiology attempts to explain such behaviour in both animals and, more controversially, in human beings, in terms of the increased fitness which the  
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96. Science > Biology > Sociobiology
    2 The Pythagorean Perspective The Arts and sociobiology sociobiology and Ethology site, featuring research on the evolution of altruistic behavior of  
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97. Sociobiology: Implications For Human Studies
    Wilson as presented in his 1975 book sociobiology The New Synthesis. Wilson claims that sociobiology is a new discipline that studies the biological basis  
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    Extractions: Sociobiology: Implications for Human Studies June 14 and 15, 1977 The NEXA Program presented a two day symposium on the controversial subject of sociobiology. Held on the San Francisco State University campus on June 14 and 15, 1977, the symposium was funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and coordinated by Anita Silvers, Professor of Philosophy at SFSU. The symposium coincided with the 58th annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (Pacific Division) also held on the campus. Academic debate arose out of the work of Harvard zoologist Edward 0. Wilson as presented in his 1975 book: Sociobiology: The New Synthesis. Wilson claims that sociobiology is a new discipline that studies the biological basis of human behavior. Indeed, he claims that all or most species-specific behavior is genetically determined. The NEXA Program called together scholars from the sciences and humanities to debate the subject for the first time. The free, two-day program held in McKenna Theater was publicized in the "New York Review of Books" and attracted 700 people to hear five panel discussions covering the following topics: What is Sociobiology?

98. General Term: Sociobiology
    According to its ‘founding figure , EO Wilson, sociobiology is “the sociobiology examines both differences between species and within species,  
    http://www.meta-library.net/gengloss/socbio-body.html

99. Culture_Raven: Peter Singer On Sociobiology
    Peter Singer on sociobiology. As long as we continue to study and cite Hobbes, Rousseau, and Marx none of whose views of human nature can today be  
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100. MSN Encarta - Sociobiology
     sociobiology, a developing scientific field that investigates the biological bases of These sources provide additional information about. sociobiology  
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