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Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (1975; 25th anniversary edition 2000) is a book by the biologist E. O. Wilson. It helped start the sociobiology debate, one of the great scientific controversies in biology of the 20th century and part of the wider debate about evolutionary psychology and the modern synthesis of evolutionary biology.
Mar 4, 2000 · Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition. Paperback – Deluxe Edition, March 4, 2000. 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 ...
Sep 5, 2009 · Sociobiology : the new synthesis. Pt. I. Social evolution. The morality of the gene ; Elementary concepts of sociobiology ; The prime movers of social evolution ; The relevant principles of population biology ; Group selection and altruism -- Pt. II. Social mechanisms.
In Sociobiology, Wilson set out to apply evolutionary theory to social behaviour not only in insects but throughout the animal kingdom. As a biologist he naturally included man among the animals, but it was this which caused the uproar.
Mar 4, 2000 · 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.
- Edward O. Wilson
man sociobiology (nowadays also called evolutionary psychology) has spread is due not merely to ideology and inertia, but also and more fundamentally to the traditional divide between the great branches of learning. Since the early nineteenth century it has been generally assumed that the natural sciences, the social sci-
Jan 1, 1975 · Regarded as one of the world’s preeminent biologists and naturalists, Edward O. Wilson grew up in south Alabama and the Florida Panhandle, where he spent his boyhood exploring the region’s forests and swamps, collecting snakes, butterflies, and ants—the latter to become his lifelong specialty.
- Edward O. Wilson
