Sociobiology is the study of the sociality of social animals. It began in 1976 with a book, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, by the famous myrmecologist E.O. Wilson. He devoted the last chapter of his ...

R.M. PITCHAPPAN, K. BALAKRISHNAN, V. SUDARSEN, V. BRAHMAJOTHI, V. MAHENDRAN, S. AMALRAJ, R. SANTHAKUMARI, K. VIJAYAKUMAR, P. SIVALINGAM and S. RAMASAMY Two endogamous ...

I have just returned from the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa. I was there to participate in a small conference honoring Edward O. Wilson, the well-known evolutionist. Although he spent his ...

For many aspects of group or individual behavior, a biological analysis might not prove to be the optimal level or even an informative level of analysis... Nevertheless, it is important to appreciate ...

Sociobiology was born on the wings of this scientific paradigm shift, whose underlying manifesto holds that the evolutionary process works most effectively at the smallest unit: that of individuals ...

Thinking Big: How the Evolution of Social Life Shaped the Human Mind Clive Gamble, John Gowlett and Robin Dunbar. Thames and Hudson: 2014. Sociobiology was born in 1975, when biologist Edward O.

Biologist Edward O. Wilson died at 92 the day after Christmas, taking his leave with the same discretion that governed his conduct as a scientist. His passing, however, was not greeted in all quarters ...

The development of sociobiology : a biologist's perspective / George W. Barlow -- Sociobiology, the new synthesis? An anthropologist's perspective / James Silverberg -- Sociobiology : another new ...

Sociobiology is less of a field than it is a series of footpaths through a field. The most well-trod of the bunch is the one that leads toward behavioral ecology, the hypothesis that human behavior is ...

If Steven Pinker’s latest 500-page treatise on the brain, The Blank Slate, serves any wider purpose in the popular discussion of science issues, it will, one hopes, be the final demoliti By signing up ...