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Sociobiology, Sex, and Science (SUNY Series in Philosophy and Biology) by Harmon R. Holcomb III, 1993-01-07 Sociobiology and the Preemption of Social Science by Professor Alexander Rosenberg, 1980-11-01 The One Per Cent Advantage: The Sociobiology of Being Human by John R. Gribbin, Mary Gribbin, 1988-05 A Sociobiology Compendium: Aphorisms, Sayings, Asides by Del Thiessen, 1997-04-01 Sociobiology and the Human Dimension (Volume 0) by Georg Breuer, 1983-03-31 Listen to the animals: The fundamentals & rationale of sociobiology by E. Gordon Dickie, 1977 Toward a New Science of Man: Quotations for Sociobiology by Robert Lenski, 1981-06 Sociobiology and Behavior by David P. Barash, 1982-09 Animal Cooperation: A Look at Sociobiology by Hallie Black, 1988-11 Ethics of Capitalism and Critique of Sociobiology: Two Essays with a Comment by James M. Buchanan (Studies in Economic Ethics and Philosophy) by Peter Koslowski, 2010-11-02 Sociobiology And The Arts. by Brett Cooke, Jan Baptist Bedaux, 1998-01 Sociobiology and Human Nature: An Interdisciplinary Critique and Defense (Jossey-Bass social and behavioral science series) by Michael Steven Gregory, 1978-10 Sociobiology: The Whisperings within by David P. Barash, 1980-03-20 Primates of South Asia: Ecology, Sociobiology, and Behavior by M. L. Roonwal, S. M. Mohnot, 1977-07-01

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21. Social Psychology Basics
    Electronic textbook by Professor George Boeree, with chapter topics including person perception, persuasion, conformity, and sociobiology.  
    http://www.ship.edu/~cgboeree/socpsy.html

22. Behavioral Ecology And Sociobiology
    Behavioral Ecology and sociobiology ISSN03405443 Springer  
    http://rdre1.inktomi.com/click?u=http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/0

23. Cogprints - Sociobiology And Incest Avoidance: A Critical Look At A Critical Rev
    sociobiology and incest avoidance a critical look at a critical review. Keywords incest, inbreeding, sociobiology, universals, Leavitt, incest avoidance.  
    http://cogprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/archive/00000177/

24. Brain, Behavior, And Evolution
    Evolutionary psychology, neurobiology, and sociobiology. Professional journal. Abstracts, archives, selected fulltext articles at no charge. Complete articles downloadable for a fee. BioMedNet registration required.  
    http://www.biomednet.com/library/bbe

25. Jim Moore Home Page
    sociobiology (UC San Diego, USA)  
    http://weber.ucsd.edu/~jmoore/
    
    Extractions: Research interests: Generally, the relationships among demography and ecology in the evolution of complex sociality. How are age and 'altruism' related? Rainfall and coalition formation? Things like that. One application of such an approach is to the study of early hominid behavioral ecology, and a lot of my current work relates to that. At right, I'm collecting hair from a chimpanzee nest in Ugalla, Tanzania (the hair yields DNA for population genetic work, and the location of nests can tell us about ape use of savanna habitats). Email: jjmoore@ucsd.edu Publications Things I've worked on... (includes complete text of some papers) BioAnthro at UCSD Some general information on biological anthropology. Courses A variety of handouts and other teaching- related materials. STUDENTS: this is the place for handouts on research papers, who cares about fossil names, and other nifty things. African Ape Study Sites This is an archive of information on field sites where gorillas, chimpanzees and bonobos have been studied. It is intended for use by researchers interested in comparative socioecology, and contains data, maps, photographs, site bibliographies and the like. For material on ape conservation, see Great apes in the wild (WWF) and the Bushmeat Crisis Task Force Southern California Primate Research Forum This is a twice-annual conference (meetings generally in April and November) that alternates among various colleges, universities and zoos in SoCal. Link to see past and future programs, register, etc.

26. The Biological Basis Of Ethics
    Chapter excerpted from 'The Expanding Circle Ethics and sociobiology' (Oxford, 1981).  
    http://www.petersingerlinks.com/expanding circle.pdf

27. Boxes And Arrows: The Sociobiology Of Information Architecture
    Read more articles in Big Ideas. The sociobiology of Information Architecture. by Alex Wright. Wilson, Edward Osborne. sociobiology The New Synthesis.  
    http://www.boxesandarrows.com/archives/the_sociobiology_of_information_architect
    
    Extractions: Search Current Previously Categories Authors ... Discuss this Article May 26, 2003 Read more articles in Big Ideas by Alex Wright Pity the poor prokaryote. Born blind, deaf, and mute, shuffling around in the darkness at 30 miles per hour, grasping for food, searching for mates, the life of your average bacteria (or any of the several trillion single-cell organisms on the planet) is invariably nasty, brutish, and short. Much as we may like to think of ourselves as belonging to a uniquely privileged species, the fact is that every complex organism on this planet is engaged in a shared struggle with information overload. Social networks 1.0 The archetypal success story of the Cambrian Era is the trilobite, a wildly prolific organism whose numbers at one point circled the entire planet (its survival as a species was aided in no small part by its predilection for wild, shells-off mating orgies). These organisms were self-contained, self-directed, and less dependent on a constant stream of data inputs for survival. Rather, they had evolved to the point where the individual organism had the resources to ensure its own immediate survival: sensing, responding, eating, and mating. But they were not exactly what you would call independent thinkers. These new self-directed organisms still relied heavily on their peers for survival and adaptation. As a substitute for the direct transmission of data over the biological network, they began developing a new mechanism for transmitting knowledge: imitation. By observing, responding, and mimicking their peer organisms, these creatures could effectively leverage each other’s senses, experiences, and decision-making capabilities.

28. Behavior OnLine: Evolutionary Psychology
    Brief introduction to evolutionary psychology and sociobiology.  
    http://www.behavior.net/column/brody/
    
    Extractions: EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIOBIOLOGY, AND CLINICAL PHENOMENA James Brody, Ph.D. Adapted Mind , (Oxford, 1992) rests on assumptions that: the human mind is a mosaic of "information processing systems" that are extraordinarily efficient in handling specific kinds of stimuli and responses to them, human evolution has been generally static since the Pleistocene, these systems are "content specific" and generate many invariant aspects of human culture. There are problems and benefits with this view. EP would appear to share the same circular morass of the Instinct Crowd from decades ago. ("Why do we eat cheese?" "It's instinctive." "How do we know it's instinctive?" "Because so many of us do it.") There are two escapes: (1) EP will use hunter-gatherer hypotheses to generate predictions about unstudied, subtle aspects of human performance in cognitive and social tasks. (2) It also tries to weaken the circularity issue by specifying physiological systems that solve an adaptive problem. Rather than assuming the independent evolution of a dozen components that just happen to work well together, EP asks "What adaptive problem is solved? What physiological resources would be needed to solve it? Is it possible that visual and motor systems work so well because their interplay led to fuller bellies at some point long ago?"

29. Napoleon Chagnon's War Of Discovery
    An article describing Chagnon's contributions to the field of human sociobiology.  
    http://cogweb.english.ucsb.edu/Abstracts/Chagnon_00.html
    
    Extractions: Sunday, January 30, 2000 A cigarette dangles from Napoleon Chagnon's lips as he reaches into the little refrigerator under his desk for a beer. He exhales a cloud, snaps open the can and pauses to say that the moment he is about to describe is a sacred one. He takes a long swig. It's the Venezuelan jungle in the 1960s. Chagnon is a young anthropologist. The green forest parts and a small, powerfully built man emerges, naked and proud. "He has a glint in his eye, a light you don't see in other people," Chagnon continues. "He is defiant, arrogant, king of the world. He is completely free to do whatever he wants, and that includes bashing your head in or being your friend." It is the first time this jungle dweller has encountered anyone from the outside world. "I want to know him and his culture, before he disappears." Chagnon has spent much of his life studying those Yanomamo people, who number some 23,000 in the Amazon basin, and there is still much more to know. Yet it appears his work is finished before it can be completed. At 61, this inveterate smoker and beer drinker, this irrepressible raconteur, is one of a disappearing breedthe swashbuckling anthropologist. And his research and manner haven't just earned him fame and respect. They've also made him reviled and ostracized. Sporting a gray beard and safari vest, he seems ready for the jungle, looking more like Papa Hemingway in the bush than a professor behind his desk at UC Santa Barbara. But the truth is that he hasn't been allowed to visit the Yanomamo in years.

30. The Evolution Of Evolutionary Psychology
    The Evolution of Evolutionary Psychology From sociobiology to Evolutionary Psychology. sociobiology. sociobiology is the study of  
    http://www.personalityresearch.org/papers/seltin.html
    
    Extractions: Melissa Seltin Northwestern University The theory of evolutionary psychology has generated much debate among both psychologists and philosophers. Therefore it is imperative that evolutionary psychology be evaluated in detail. In doing so, one is forced to examine its forerunner, sociobiology, and also question the concept of a good theory. Metatheory dictates that a good theory should be simple, accurate, fruitful, consistent, etc. Sociobiology, although strong in its Darwinian foundations, is highly criticized as being limited in scope and difficult to falsify. Evolutionary psychology is also criticized as being difficult to falsify, but scientists commend this theory for its fruitfulness and its ability to encompass many different fields of psychology while connecting psychology to the more hardcore sciences. Sociobiology is the study of the biological determinants of social behavior, based on the theory that such behavior is often genetically transmitted and subject to evolutionary processes. It stresses the importance of behavior and is committed to the theories of the adaptationist program. The adaptationist program assumes that certain creatures or groups of creatures currently exist because their past relatives possessed certain phenotypic traits that they were able to pass on to future generations. In 1975, Wilson published Sociobiology, which was highly debated among theorists of the time. However, one no longer hears that psychology will be encompassed by sociobiology; rather psychology has incorporated some sociobiological theses while rejecting the more extreme assertions (Anker, 1987, p. 426). This is evident to those who have taken courses in various fields of psychology. Since 1975, evidence of genetic influence on behavior and acceptance of the theory has increased steadily. However, because of the general form of sociobiological argument, many remain skeptical.

31. SpringerLink - Publication
    www.springerlink.com/link.asp?id=100464 More results from www.springerlink.com Animal and Human Behavior Paul J. Watson spider Linyphia litigiosa (Linyphiidae). Behavioral Ecology and sociobiology 26,77-90. Watson, PJ 1991. Multiple paternity and first  
    http://www.springerlink.com/openurl.asp?genre=journal&issn=0340-5443

32. Sociobiology - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
    sociobiology. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. sociobiology is a branch not prescriptive. Science and sociobiology. Twin studies  
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociobiology
    
    Extractions: Sociobiology is a branch of biology that attempts to explain animal behavior and social structures in terms of evolutionary advantage or strategy . It uses techniques from ethology evolution and population genetics The term 'sociobiology' was coined by E. O. Wilson in with the publication of his famous book Sociobiology: The New Synthesis . Sociobiology attempts to explain the evolutionary mechanics behind social behaviors such as altruism aggression , and nurturance. Wilson's book sparked one of the greatest scientific controversies of the 20th century Table of contents 1 Sociobiological Theory edit Sociobiologists do not believe that animal or human behaviour can be explained entirely by " cultural " or " environmental " factors. They believe that in order to fully understand behaviour it must be analyzed with some focus on its evolutionary origins. If Darwin 's theory of evolution is accepted, then evolved behavioural mechanisms that allowed an organism a greater chance of surviving and reproducing would be more likely to survive in present organisms. Many

33. Sociobiology
    Summary and criticism of Philip Kitcher's and R. C. Lewontin's ideas.  
    http://www.psych.nwu.edu/~sengupta/sociob.html

34. American Scientist Online
    John Dupr© reviews 'Defenders of the Truth The Battle for Science in the sociobiology Debate and Beyond' by Ullica Segerstr¥le.  
    http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/Leads01/defenders.html
    
    Extractions: Home Current Issue Archives Bookshelf ... Subscribe In This Section Search Book Reviews by Issue Issue Index Topical Index ... Classics Site Search Advanced Search Visitor Login Username Password Help with login Forgot your password? Change your username Archives FEATURED ITEM Computers, Paradoxes and the Foundations of Mathematics Gregory J. Chaitin Lots of things just can't be proved, yet mathematics moves forward SECTION CONTENTS Welcome to the American Scientist Online archive of back-issue content. Members and subscribers have full access to the content published since 1998. Selected full-text "Classics" from earlier issues are also available, as is a complete listing of feature titles published since 1970. Search

35. The End Of The Beginning By Daniel Jones
    exemplified by the heated exchanges between Harvard biologist Stephen Jay Gould, who has maintained a consistent resistance to sociobiology and evolutionary  
    http://human-nature.com/nibbs/02/jones.html
    
    Extractions: Home - Human Nature Review The Human Nature Daily Review Online Dictionary Of Mental Health What is New? Search Feedback Guestbook Free Electronic Books Darwin and Darwinism Science as Culture Free Associations Human Relations, Authority and Justice Kleinian Studies Against All Reason Burying Freud The Seduction Theory Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk The Origin of Species The Expression of the Emotions The Voyage of the Beagle The Descent of Man T.H.Huxley Autobiography Discourse on the Method The Varieties of Religious Experience Proposed Roads to Freedom The Warfare of Science with Theology Psychoanalytic Aesthetics Unfree Associations Mind, Brain and Adaptation Darwin's Metaphor Mental Space The Culture of British Psychoanalysis Whatever Happened to Human Nature? Group Relations Lost for Words The Story of a Mental Hospital Victims of Memory Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge The Evolution of Human Sex Differences How the Mind Works Fashionable Nonsense The Biotech Century Process Press Robert M. Young - Home Page Robert M. Young - Index of Papers Evolutionary Psychology Mental Health Research Radical Science Human Nature Books Human Nature Information Object Relations European Psychotherapy Psychoanalytic Studies Science as Culture Human Nature Review ISSN 1476-1084 Table of Contents What's New Search Feedback ... Search for papers by Barash, D. P.

36. Sociobiology
    A brief historical perspective from Southern Arkansas University.  
    http://peace.saumag.edu/faculty/Kardas/Courses/GPWeiten/C1Intro/Sociobiology.htm
    
    Extractions: Updated: Sociobiology, in its most recent form, dates from the 1970s and the work of Edward O. Wilson. However, the roots of sociobiology are older. The first use of the term sociobiology likely dates to the work of Warder C. Allee, Alfred E. Emerson, and their associates in their 1949 book, Principles of Animal Ecology. Sociobiogists study the behavior of social animals, including humans. Sociobiology developed from studies in population biology and genetics. Research in the social insects, especially ants and honey bees, had shown that the old Darwinian maxim of individual selection, of individuals working for their own reproductive success, did not seem to apply to those groups. The worker castes of those species do not reproduce; yet, their behavior in defense of their nests was tenacious and often life-threatening to the defenders. How could such behavior be explained? The answers began to crystallize when Hamilton (1964) developed the concept of inclusive fitness. Inclusive fitness incorporated not only one's own reproductive success, but also the reproductive success of relatives. In the social insects, all of the workers born of the same queen are full sisters, but, they are all even more closely related to their mother, the queen. So, if one transfers the logic of evolution from the individual to genes, then the behavior of social insects begins to make sense. When workers die in defense of their nests, they are more likely to increase the likelihood of their genes' survival, even though they died in the effort.

37. Paul Ehrlich Challenges Evolutionary Psychology And The 'selfish Gene' In His Ne
    Ehrlich's book 'Human Natures' builds on evolutionary psychology and sociobiology.  
    http://www.stanford.edu/dept/news/pr/00/humans920.html
    
    Extractions: e-mail: mshwartz@stanford.edu Do "selfish genes" program men to be more promiscuous than women? Beneath the veneer of civility, are people innately aggressive? Some researchers and a growing segment of the general population - would answer "yes" to those and a host of other questions, suggesting that we are tightly programmed by our genes. But according to Stanford evolutionist Paul R. Ehrlich, there is little scientific basis for such widely accepted notions. Ehrlich challenges the so-called "selfish gene" and other tenets of evolutionary psychology in his wide-ranging new book , Human Natures: Genes, Cultures and the Human Prospect (Shearwater Books/Island Press, Washington, D.C.).

38. Animal Behavior And Sociobiology
    Animal Behavior and sociobiology. Lecture ethology. Originally called sociobiology, today it is often referred to as evolutionary psychology.  
    http://www.science.mcmaster.ca/psychology/psych1a6/1aa3/anbehavmenu.htm
    
    Extractions: Animal Behavior and Sociobiology Lecture 1: In this lecture we introduce the field of animal behavior, and its roots in European ethology and North American comparative psychology. We then discuss the kinds of questions that animal behaviorists ask, with some examples from specific species. Lecture 2: In this lecture we look at one of the most influential models in animal behavior: the psychohydraulic model of Konrad Lorenz. We will explore the ways in which this model accounts for a number of features of animal behavior. Lecture 3: In this lecture we will look at the several shortcomings of Lorenz' psychohydraulic model, and look at several alternative models for animal behavior: homeostatic models, and optimization models. Lecture 4: In this lecture we introduce an influential approach to human social behavior that arose from animal behavior and ethology. Originally called sociobiology, today it is often referred to as evolutionary psychology. It argues that many aspects of human social behavior are affected by genetic predispositions shaped by evolution. In this lecture we consider how sociobiology might make sense out of a number of male-female differences in behavior.

39. Jerome H. Barkow's Page
    Evolutionary psychology, sociobiology, human reproductive behaviour (Dalhousie University, Canada).  
    http://is.dal.ca/~barkow/home.htm

40. Sociobiology And You
    sociobiology and You. by STEVEN JOHNSON. The myth of the inevitability of genetic effects has nothing whatever to do with sociobiology .  
    http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20021118&s=johnson

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