sociobiology
IPA: sˈoʊsioʊbaɪˈɑɫʌdʒi
noun
- The science that applies the principles of evolutionary biology to the study of social behaviour in both humans and animals.
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Examples of "sociobiology" in Sentences
- Criticism of human sociobiology.
- EP is closely linked to sociobiology,
- Revolutionized the field of sociobiology.
- Sociobiology and evolutionary psychology.
- See sociobiology for this type of theory.
- He has primarily written on sociobiology.
- Human sociobiology and evolutionary psychology.
- Sociobiology as such has existed since the 1970s.
- Opposition to sociobiology and evolutionary psychology.
- Applied to non humans, sociobiology is uncontroversial.
- Driven by what he called the “amphetamine of ambition,” he resolved to write a book on a discipline that he decided to dub sociobiology.
- To SOME people, few but vocal, Edward O. Wilson is a bugbear, infamous as the leading enunciator of a branch of science called sociobiology.
- The latest technologies like fMRI get misused in the service of biological reductionism and neo-eugenics (euphemistically called sociobiology and evolutionary psychology).
- * Yes, I know that John Paul Scott was likely the first to use the term sociobiology, but it was Wilson who brought the field into its own (and took so much flack early on).
- The latest deadweight dragging us closer to phrenology is "evolutionary psychology," or the science formerly known as sociobiology, which studies the evolutionary roots of human behavior.
- He even coined the term sociobiology to describe the field that he was opening up—namely the study of the social behavior of animals and humans and how this is related to genetics, early experience, and the survival of species.
- Because of the universals I see, I'm much more interested in sociobiology, though -- the sense that evolution has formed our minds and thereby, in deep and powerful ways, constrained the types and shapes possible in human societies.
- With my evident interest in sociobiology, this was too good a parallel to pass up, so I figured I'd try to mash together the cyberpunks with the PUAs and see what came out the other end, while addressing some interesting things I noted in Strauss's text.