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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.
Sociobiology is a field of biology that aims to explain social behavior in terms of evolution. It draws from disciplines including psychology , ethology , anthropology , evolution , zoology , archaeology , and population genetics .
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Sociobiology: The New Synthesis was initially met with praise by most biologists. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] After substantial criticism of the book was launched by the Sociobiology Study Group , associated with the organization Science for the People , a major controversy known as the "sociobiology debate" ensued, [ 7 ] [ 8 ] and Wilson was accused of racism ...
In 1975 I expanded the conception of the discipline outlined to include vertebrate animals. The result was Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, a double-column, 697-page account of theory based on an encyclopedic review of all known social organisms. In a 1989 poll the officers and fellows of the international Animal Behavior Society ranked it the ...
The Sociobiology Study Group was an academic organization formed to specifically counter sociobiological explanations of human behavior, particularly those expounded by the Harvard entomologist E. O. Wilson in Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (1975). [1]
The Social Conquest of Earth is a 2012 book by biologist Edward O. Wilson.. Wilson adapted the title of Paul Gauguin's famous mural as a theme -- "What are we?", "Where did we come from?", "Where are we going?"—for discussing his topic of eusocial behavior in several arthropod taxa and a few mammalian species, and its role in making humans as a species unique.
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