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 ...

Steven Pinker’s new book, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (Viking)), consists of 509 pages explaining why we must be serious about human nature and extolling the virtues of the kind ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This essay takes the position that sociologists need to pay more attention to biology, but that the biological perspective provided by ...

In his current Slate dialogue, Robert Wright writes: “We both subscribe to the modern Darwinian view of human behavior (whose variants include evolutionary psychology and sociobiology) …” What are ...

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

A survey of advanced social organization in insects calls into question the standard explanation for eusociality Biologist Edward O. Wilson argues that natural selection acting on emergent traits of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pioneering biologist, environmental activist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edward O. Wilson has died. He was 92. The influential and sometimes controversial Harvard professor first made his name ...