- Wilson, Edward Osborne by Lindsey Swanson
1929–, American sociobiologist, b. Birmingham, Ala. Founder of sociobiology, Wilson argued in his controversial Sociobiology: The New Synthesis. (1975) that all human behavior, including altruism, is genetically based, and therefore "selfish." He later called for careful study of "gene-cultural co-evolution." Critics have called sociobiology a ...
- sociobiology by Jessica Strickland
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 (and human) social behaviour in the light of natural selection and other biological processes. A ...
- Wilson, Edward O by Micah Lowe
... subject. In 1975 he published Sociobiology, a highly controversial and influential study of the genetic basis of social behaviour in which he claimed that even a characteristic such as unselfish generosity may be genetically based and may have evolved through natural selection, that preservation of the gene rather than the individual is the focus of evolutionary strategy ...
- biology, philosophy by Mariana Matthews
... to theories of the physical sciences, the role of teleological language in biology ( see teleology), and the nature of species as a biological category. See also. creationism; sociobiology.
- human nature by Ciara Cooper
... hence less risk-taking; and concomitantly less investment and greater risk-taking among males. See also. behaviour genetics; Homo sapiens; personality; philosophical anthropology; sociobiology.