41. Steve Sailer: "E.O. Wilson's Sociobiology At Age 25" - National Review, 6/19/200 Vast yet coherent, sociobiology demonstrated in rigorous detail how Wilson s orthodox Darwinian sociobiology made it countless enemies in academia. http://www.isteve.com/Sociobiology.htm

Sociobiology at Age 25 by Steve Sailer www.iSteve.com National Review Home Email Steve ... Sociobiology: The New Synthesis 25th Anniversary Edition , by Edward O. Wilson (Harvard University Press, 697 pages, $75.00 cloth, $29.95 paper) [This is the last of the various versions I wrote for NR. No doubt it differs in some fashion from what they actually printed. Steve Sailer, www.iSteve.com Great fiction does not grow obsolete. Nor in it's own way does great propaganda. In contrast, truly important scientific books render themselves obsolete by opening new fields for subsequent scholars to elaborate. Edward O. Wilson's 1975 landmark Sociobiology , which introduced Darwinian explanations for behavior to the publicand which has now been reissued to mark its 25th anniversaryis just such a book. Vast yet coherent, Sociobiology demonstrated in rigorous detail how Darwinian selection molded the various ways in which all animalsfrom the lowly corals to the social insects to the highest primatescompete and cooperate with others of their own species. Outraging the leftists who dominated academia, Wilson suggested numerous analogies between animal and human societies. While men have drawn such parallels since long before Aesop, Wilson's command of natural history and the power of neo-Darwinian theory in unifying this vast body of knowledge lent credibility to his grand ambition to reduce social science to a branch of biology, just as, Wilson argued, biology could ultimately be reduced to chemistry and chemistry to physics. .

42. ITEST BULLETIN --- SUMMER, 1997 Dr. Richard J. Blackwell Department of Philosophy St. Louis University. This paper was presented at the ITEST Conference on The State of the Art in March, 1980. Dr. Blackwell is well versed in the philosophy of science and has written many papers on various aspects of that field. http://itest.slu.edu/articles/90s/blackwell2.html

SOCIOBIOLOGY: THE NEW RELIGION Dr. Richard J. Blackwell Department of Philosophy St. Louis University [This paper was presented at the ITEST Conference on The State of the Art in March, 1980. Dr. Blackwell is well versed in the philosophy of science and has written many papers on various aspects of that field.] In 1971 E.O. Wilson, a prominent entomologist at Harvard, published a book entitled The Insect Societies . In the last chapter of that book Wilson suggested that it may be fruitful to attempt to extend to the world of vertebrate animals the set of principles which he had found to be operative in the intricate behaviors of social insects. Following his own advice, he published four years later his enormous study entitled Sociobiology: The New Synthesis . The twenty-seventh and last chapter of that book recommended the fur- ther extension of these same principles to the human species. The result was a third book, On Human Nature , which appeared in 1978.

43. Boxes And Arrows: The Sociobiology Of Information Architecture Thanks to the conceptual foundation of sociobiology and, more recently, sociobiology The New Synthesis. Harvard University Press, September 1975. http://www.boxesandarrows.com/archives/the_sociobiology_of_information_architect

Search Current Previously Categories Authors ... Discuss this Article May 26, 2003 Read more articles in Big Ideas The Sociobiology of Information Architecture by Alex Wright Pity the poor prokaryote. Born blind, deaf, and mute, shuffling around in the darkness at 30 miles per hour, grasping for food, searching for mates, the life of your average bacteria (or any of the several trillion single-cell organisms on the planet) is invariably nasty, brutish, and short. Much as we may like to think of ourselves as belonging to a uniquely privileged species, the fact is that every complex organism on this planet is engaged in a shared struggle with information overload. Meet the original information architects. Social networks 1.0 The archetypal success story of the Cambrian Era is the trilobite, a wildly prolific organism whose numbers at one point circled the entire planet (its survival as a species was aided in no small part by its predilection for wild, shells-off mating orgies). These organisms were self-contained, self-directed, and less dependent on a constant stream of data inputs for survival. Rather, they had evolved to the point where the individual organism had the resources to ensure its own immediate survival: sensing, responding, eating, and mating. But they were not exactly what you would call independent thinkers. Sociobiology: the New Synthesis , brilliantly punctured the prevalent scientific view that animal behavior could be adequately explained through the traditional disciplinary filters of biology, chemistry, and genetic inheritance.

44. This Web Site Has Moved Evolutionary psychology, sociobiology, human reproductive behaviour (Dalhousie University, Canada). http://is.dal.ca/~barkow/home.htm

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45. SpringerLink - Publication springerlink.metapress.com/link.asp?id=100464 Open Directory Science Biology sociobiologyAgainst sociobiology - Tom Bethell speculates on what future generations will make of the controversy surrounding human sociobiology. http://springerlink.metapress.com/openurl.asp?genre=journal&issn=0340-5443

46. PTypes - Sociobiology Text and links on sociobiology (evolutionary psychology) http://www.ptypes.com/sociobiology.html

PTypes - Personality Types Search PTypes A Correspondence of Psychiatric, Keirsey, and Enneagram Typologies Noteworthy Examples Sociobiology (evolutionary psychology) From Edward O. Wilson 's On Human Nature (pp. 32-33): Wilson, Edward O. On Human Nature . Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1978. Darwin's Progress - National Review - Britannica.com Wilson's orthodox Darwinian sociobiology made countless enemies in academia. Centrist anthropologists John Tooby and Leda Cosmides accordingly relaunched sociobiology under the neutral name of "evolutionary psychology." Pronouncing themselves the truest True Believers in equality, Tooby and Cosmides portrayed human nature as almost monolithically uniform and proclaimed that evolutionary psychology should study only human similarities. But while egalitarianism served as a useful cover for infiltrating neo-Darwinism into academia, it proved a largely useless methodology for learning about humanity. Why? Because knowledge consists of contrasts. To learn much about human nature, we need to look for patterns of similarities and differences among humans. On the Evolutionary Psychology mailing list, dangerous ideas thrive without the usual online rancor and hatred.

47. Sociobiology: The New Synthesis By E. O. Wilson Despite its size sociobiology hasn t been expanded and updated in the past 25+ Even with the vast amount of more recent research, sociobiology is still http://www.2think.org/sociobiology.shtml

Edward Osborne Wilson Sociobiology: The New Synthesis "A science of sociobiology, if coupled with neurophysiology, might transform the insights of ancient religions into a precise account of the evolutionary origin of ethics and hence explain the reasons why we make certain moral choices instead of others at particular times." (p. 129) A big book gets even bigger. With over 700 jumbo sized pages of small, double columned print this is not a text that one can plow through in a week or two. Despite its size Sociobiology hasn't been expanded and updated in the past 25+ years (with the exception of Wilson's new 4 page introduction). Even with the vast amount of more recent research, Sociobiology is still worth reading. It will remain a timeless classic and constantly referred to work throughout the foreseeable future. Example after example through the entire book of various species demonstrating certain behaviors make Sociobiology almost as entertaining as it is fascinating which is unusual for something that on the surface appears to be a textbook of sorts. If the facts of the social behaviors of these species aren't intriguing enough for you then the novel and clever ways in which scientists have discovered these traits via careful observation and/or ingenious experiment will. The chapter on aggression is very interesting. It has been demonstrated that species far less conscious than humans are genetically programmed to be aggressive (via hormones like catecholamine) when crowded. Although the chapter isn't about

48. Cogprints - Subject: Sociobiology Original scientific papers on the subject. http://cogprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/view/subjects/bio-socio.html

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49. BBSPrints Archive: THE SOCIOBIOLOGY OF SOCIOPATHY: AN INTEGRATED EVOLUTIONARY MO Mealey, Linda (1995) THE sociobiology OF SOCIOPATHY AN INTEGRATED Keywords, sociobiology, sociopathy, psychopathy, antisocial personality, evolution, http://www.bbsonline.org/documents/a/00/00/05/20/

BBS nline THE SOCIOBIOLOGY OF SOCIOPATHY: AN INTEGRATED EVOLUTIONARY MODEL Home About Browse Search ... Help Mealey, Linda (1995) THE SOCIOBIOLOGY OF SOCIOPATHY: AN INTEGRATED EVOLUTIONARY MODEL. Full text available as: HTML Short Abstract: Long Abstract: Keywords: sociobiology, sociopathy, psychopathy, antisocial personality, evolution, criminal behavior, game theory, emotion, moral development, facultative strategies Subjects: Psychology: Behavioral Analysis Biology: Evolution Biology: Sociobiology Psychology: Clinical Psychology ... Philosophy: Logic ID code: Deposited by: Linda Mealey on 02 May 2001 Contact site administrator at: support@bbsonline.org

50. Woodhill Publishing: Purpose Of Life, A Book On Philosophy / Ethics / Evolution The Purpose of Life is summarised. This is a book on the philosophy of values and ethics from a viewpoint of evolution or sociobiology. http://www.woodhillpublishing.co.uk

Woodhill Publishing The Purpose of Life Summary of Main Argument Book Contents Page Contact Details Order Form ... Home The Purpose of Life by Donald Cameron Woodhill Publishing (2001) The Purpose of Life is an entirely non-mystical solution to the problem of moral philosophy derived with the aid of current ideas in biology and mathematical decision theory. Dr Cameron makes the ambitious claim to have solved the problem, for the first time providing objective answers to questions of values and ethics. Statements about value, purpose or morality are fundamentally different from statements about fact and scientific attempts to prove them from premises of fact must fail. The philosophers' principle that you cannot derive an "ought" from an "is" is valid. A value conclusion cannot be drawn from premises consisting only of facts. There must be at least one value premise. This result has been used by philosophers as a licence to pull complex value statements out of their culturally conditioned feelings before applying reasoning to them. The author uses a different approach. That is to seek the most basic, self-evident axioms of value. These are (a) to wish not to hold contradictory beliefs about values, (b) to reject nihilism (the idea that nothing matters at all) and (c) to wish one's values not to be a result of random accidental events, but to have a source of information. The only source of non-random information, which has created human values, including the human instinct to build an ethical culture, is the force of natural selection. The fact of evolution and, in particular, the modern analyses of the evolution of altruism and social behaviour are essential to understand any philosophy of values. It is astonishing that so many investigators of ethics have felt able to ignore them.

51. THE SOCIOBIOLOGY OF SOCIOPATHY: AN INTEGRATED... sociobiology, sociopathy, psychopathy, antisocial personality, Crawford, CB Anderson, JL (1989) sociobiology An environmentalist discipline? http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/OldArchive/bbs.mealey.html

Below is the unedited preprint (not a quotable final draft) of: Mealey, L. (1995). The sociobiology of sociopathy: An integrated evolutionary model. Behavioral and Brain Sciences The final published draft of the target article, commentaries and Author's Response are currently available only in paper. For information about subscribing or purchasing offprints of the published version, with commentaries and author's response, write to: journals_subscriptions@cup.org (North America) or journals_marketing@cup.cam.ac.uk (All other countries). THE SOCIOBIOLOGY OF SOCIOPATHY: AN INTEGRATED EVOLUTIONARY MODEL Linda Mealey Department of Psychology College of St. Benedict St. Joseph, MN 56374 Keywords sociobiology, sociopathy, psychopathy, antisocial personality, evolution, criminal behavior, game theory, emotion, moral development, facultative strategies Abstract Sociopaths are also sometimes known as psychopaths or antisocial personalities. Unfortunately, the literature reflects varied uses of these three terms (Hare 1970, Feldman 1977, McCord 1983, Wolf 1987, Eysenck 1987). Some authors use one or another term as a categorical label, as in psychiatric diagnosis or in defining distinct personality "types"; an example is the "antisocial personality" disorder described in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association (1987). Other authors use the terms to refer to individuals who exhibit, to a large degree, a set of behaviors or personality attributes which are found in a continuous, normal distribution among the population at large; an example of such usage is "sociopathy" as defined by high scores on all three scales of the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire- extraversion, neuroticism, and psychoticism (Eysenck 1977, 1987).

52. The Paula Gordon Show An interview with the author of 'sociobiology'. http://www.paulagordon.com/shows/wilson/

The Paula Gordon Show The Science of Survival Edward O. Wilson . . . is among the world's great scientists. Author of two Pulitzer Prize winning books, Dr. Wilson spent a lifetime teaching at Harvard, where he earned his Ph.D. and which awarded him both of its college-wide teaching awards. Currently Professor and Honorary Curator of Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology, Dr. Wilson's honors and awards include the National Medal of Science, top honors from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Worldwide Fund for Nature, the National Audubon Society, and Japan's International Prize for Biology. He is on the Board of The Nature Conservancy, Conservation International and the American Museum of Natural History. Consilience, the Unity of Knowledge is his latest book. 3:32 secs The real work of the 21st century, according to the great Harvard scientist Edward O. Wilson, is to settle humanity down before we wreck the planet. Dr. Wilson says the explosion of the human population promises 8 billion people living on earth within 40 years (as compared to 2 billion in 1900.) It's a vast bottleneck coinciding with a documented worldwide decline in arable land and water. And we people are pushing the rest of life off the face of the earth. But Wilson also offers both hope and plans for action. While Dr. Wilson expects the 21st century will be a scary rush of accelerating change, if and this is a very big "if" if we address our challenges of natural resources, conservation, and human population, we have a chance for a quieter, more secure time for humans and other forms of life on the other side.

53. Sociobiology Home Page Welcome to the sociobiology Web Site. The serial sociobiology, published by California State University Chico, was founded by its present editor in 1975 to http://www.csuchico.edu/biol/Sociobiology/sociobiologyindex.html

Welcome to the Sociobiology Web Site The serial SOCIOBIOLOGY, published by California State University Chico, was founded by its present editor in 1975 to provide a more timely publication of quality papers by researchers of social animals. The serial has grown substantially since it was first published and as a result of the growth in computer based technologies, improvement in quality has been made as well. Over the years the majority of the papers have dealt with, but are not limited to, the various aspects of the biology of social insects such as termites and ants along with many of the insects associated with them. This web site has been produced to assist in providing insight on current investigations of social animals. Several links have been provided to direct individuals to subscription information and abstracts of articles beginning with volume 39, number 3, 2002.

54. Behavioral Ecology And Sociobiology-Springer Behavioural Sciences Journal Behavioral Ecology and sociobiology publishes reviews and original contributions dealing with quantitative empirical and theoretical studies in the http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-10027-70-1040727-0,00.

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55. Evolution -- Sociobiology The Softer Side of sociobiology H. Allen Orr reviews Matt Ridley s The Origins of Virtue Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation http://www.origins.tv/darwin/sociobiology.htm

and Evolution Links to our Past News of the Present Insight for the Future Alfred R. Wallace Linnean Society of London OR Select Any page Listed Here. Abiogenesis Cell Biology Essays Homework Aids ... Zoology Sociobiology Evolutionary Psychology The Softer Side of Sociobiology H. Allen Orr reviews Matt Ridley's The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation The (Im)moral Animal : from Skeptics Society Theory of Options An original hypothesis on the evolution of human behavior. Why is the human brain so large? Pre-humans survived with a much smaller brain. Why if fitness favors individuals, did humans evolve morality, which favors groups? Evolutionary Theories in the Social Sciences The notion that Darwinian forces may drive the way organizations operate and how societies evolve has become a hot research area. This site aims to bring this field together with book reviews, journal links, a forum, and conference updates. Great Ideas in Personality Evolutionary psychology is an evolutionary approach to human nature. Attachment Theory is also grounded in certain evolutionary ideas, and Behavior Genetics is a field concerned with all-important evolutionary mechanisms–genes. Edward Osborne Wilson Sociobiology: The New Synthesis Consilience : The Unity of Knowledge Reviewed at Boston Reviews On Human Nature See more by Wilson on Essays Page Abiogenesis Additions, Recent

56. Harvard University Press/Sociobiology sociobiology Abridged Edition by Edward O. Wilson, published by Harvard University Press. http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/WILSOA.html

Edward O. Wilson is Pellegrino University Professor at Harvard University Sociobiology Abridged Edition Edward O. Wilson View a video on Professor Wilson entitled "On the Relation of Science and the Humanities" OTHER HARVARD BOOKS BY EDWARD O. WILSON Biophilia For Love of Insects Pheidole in the New World: A Dominant, Hyperdiverse Ant Genus ... The Insect Societies Belknap Press Hardcover edition This edition is out of print. ISBN 0-674-81623-4 Paperback edition ISBN 0-674-81624-2 Science: General / Science: Biology

57. Harvard University Press/Sociobiology sociobiology The New Synthesis TwentyFifth Anniversary Edition by Edward O. Wilson, published by Harvard University Press. http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/WILSOR.html

Author Photo: Jon Chase/Harvard 1996 Edward O. Wilson is Pellegrino University Professor at Harvard University Sociobiology The New Synthesis Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition Edward O. Wilson View a video on Professor Wilson entitled "On the Relation of Science and the Humanities" Harvard University Press is proud to announce the re-release of the complete original version of Sociobiology: The New Synthesis now available in paperback for the first time. When this classic work was first published in 1975, 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. In the introduction to this Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition, Edward O. 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.

58. Sociobiology And You Ever since EO Wilson first published the 1975 book sociobiologywhich argued sociobiology is a reductionist, biological determinist explanation of http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20021118&s=johnson

59. Vls.icm.edu.pl/cgi-bin/sciserv.pl?collection=elsev The New York Review of Books THE POLITICS OF sociobiologyAn article by Stuart Hampshire from The New York Review of Books, May 31, 1979. http://vls.icm.edu.pl/cgi-bin/sciserv.pl?collection=elsevier&journal=01623095

60. The New York Review Of Books: Against "Sociobiology" An article by Steven Gould from The New York Review of Books, November 13, 1975. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/9017

@import "/css/default.css"; Home Your account Current issue Archives ... Email to a friend Letter Against "Sociobiology" By Anthony Leeds Barbara Beckwith Chuck Madansky David Culver ... Steven Gould In response to Mindless Societies August 7, 1975 The following letter was prepared by a group of university faculty and scientists, high school teachers, doctors, and students who work in the Boston area To the Editors Each time these ideas have resurfaced the claim has been made that they were based on new scientific information. Yet each time, even though strong scientific arguments have been presented to show the absurdity of these theories, they have not died. The reason for the survival of these recurrent determinist theories is that they consistently tend to provide a genetic justification of the status quo and of existing privileges for certain groups according to class, race or sex. Historically, powerful countries or ruling groups within them have drawn support for the maintenance or extension of their power from these products of the scientific community. For example, John D. Rockefeller, Sr. said. These theories provided an important basis for the enactment of sterilization laws and restrictive immigration laws by the United States between 1910 and 1930 and also for the eugenics policies which led to the establishment of gas chambers in Nazi Germany.

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