Viewpoint: Yes, sociobiologists led by E. O. Wilson have offered convincing evidence that the mechanisms of the inheritance and development of human physical, mental, and behavioral traits are essentially the same as for other animals. Viewpoint: No,...

Sociobiology is the term used to describe a relatively recent stage in the continuing development of evolutionary biology. It systematically brings the study of social behavior under the umbrella of the Synthetic Theory (or the Modern Synthesis) that,...

Sociobiology and evolutionary psychology are related fields, both of which claim that biology is the principal determinant in human affairs. Sociobiology was initially, and by some accounts is entirely, the study of the genetic bases of animal...

Sociobiology denotes the attempt to provide a biological explanation for the social behavior of animals, including humans, although the focus is more often on social insects such as ants and honey bees. Because ethics is also concerned with social...

Sociobiology is the attempt to understand the biological origins and development of animal societies—including human society—using the Darwinian theory of natural selection. It is based in part on the observation that certain behaviors...

Sociobiology is used in both a wide and a narrow sense. As Ernst Mayr (1982:598) put it, ‘Sociobiology, broadly speaking, deals with the social behavior of organisms in the light of evolution.’ This definition would include ethology,...

Classical biologists defined the sexes in terms of differences in gamete (the reproductive cells) sizes, with females having large, relatively immobile, nutrient-rich eggs and males having motile small sperm. This definition describes an essential sex...

A perennial debate about human nature, pitting the idea that behavior is culturally conditioned against the notion that human actions are innately controlled, was rekindled in 1975 when Edward O. Wilson's Sociobiology: The New Synthesis...

Sociobiology A term coined by the eminent entomologist Edward O. Wilson to define a field of study combining biology and social sciences. In his 1975 work, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, entomologist Edward O. Wilson first coined the term...

Sociobiology, also called behavioral ecology, is the study of the evolution of social behavior in all organisms, including human beings. The highly complex behaviors of individual animals become even more intricate when interactions among groups of...

Sociobiology, also called behavioral ecology, is the study of the evolution of social behavior in all organisms, including human beings. The highly complex behaviors of individual animals become even more intricate when interactions among groups of...

Many behavioural traits are influenced by inheritance and are appropriately viewed as adaptations (see NATURAL SELECTION). Indeed, in some species, almost every aspect of behaviour is under rather tight genetic control. Behavioural adaptations must...

In 1975 Harvard University biologist Edward O. Wilson wrote a controversial book called Sociobiology: The New Synthesis in which he proposed to undertake "the systematic study of the biological basis of all social behavior" (Meachan 1998,...

Systematic study of the biological basis of social behaviour. The concept was popularized by Edward O. Wilson in his Sociobiology (1975) and by Richard Dawkins (b. 1941) in The Selfish Gene (1976). Sociobiology attempts to understand and explain animal...

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For the book by E. O. Wilson, see Sociobiology: The New Synthesis. Sociobiology is a neo-Darwinian synthesis of scientific disciplines that attempts to explain social behavior in all species by considering the evolutionary advantages the behaviors may...