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Experimental behavioral ecology and sociobiology: In memoriam Karl von Frisch, 1886-1982 by B. Holldobler, M. Lindauer, 1985 Violence Against Women: A Critique of the Sociobiology of Rape (Genes and Gender Monograph) by Suzanne R. Sunday, 1985-08 Sociobiology/Mental Disorder by Brant Wenegrat, Wenegrat, 1984-01 Selected Readings in Sociobiology Marxism and Human Sociobiology: The Perspective of Economic Reforms in China (S U N Y Series in Philosophy and Biology) by Zhang Boshu, 1994-08 Primate Sociobiology by J. Patrick Gray, 1985-11 Sociobiology and human politics by Elliott White, 1981 Sociobiology and Psychology: Ideas, Issues, and Applications by Martin Smith, Charles Crawford, 1987-10 A Proposition to Theory of History and Social Evolution: Sociobiology by Robert Kenoun, 2007-03-22 The Sociobiology of Ethnocentrism: Evolutionary Dimensions of Xenophobia, Discrimination, Racism, and Nationalism The genetic imperative, fact and fantasy in sociobiology: A bibliography (Canadian Gay Archives publication ; no. 2) by Alan V Miller, 1979 Beyond Sociobiology by John D. Baldwin, 1981-09 Sociobiology and Conflict: Evolutionary perspectives on competition, cooperation, violence and warfare by V. Falger, 1990-07-31 Human Sociobiology: A Holistic Approach by Daniel G. Freedman, 1979-07

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41. Sociobiology And You
    review Posted October 31, 2002. sociobiology and You. by Steven Johnson.  
    http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20021118&s=johnson

42. Animal And Human Behavior - Paul J. Watson
    Research and teaching in animal and human behavior by Dr. Paul J. Watson, University of New Mexico and Flathead Lake Biological, Montana. Field courses, graduate and independent study student supervision, and workshops.  
    http://biology.unm.edu/biology/pwatson/public_html/pjw_cv.htm
    
    Extractions: A substantive, experiential introduction to the theory and practice of animal behavior and human evolutionary psychology. An intensive 4-week program for mature undergrads and beginning graduate students. Offers experience applying the modern adaptationist hypothesis testing approach to the analysis of behavior. Lectures, discussions, and readings all serve the central aim of the course: to observe the behavior of a variety of animals in the field and lab and collaboratively develop theoretically informed publishable behavioral ecology studies.

43. Selfish Genes, Paradise Engineering And The Post-Darwinian Transition
    BLTC Research logo THE HEDONISTIC IMPERATIVE Heaven on Earth? paradiseengineering and the Post-Darwinian Transition. ABSTRACT. for  
    http://www.sociobiology.com/
    
    Extractions: Heaven on Earth? "...for just as the smallpox virus was systematically hunted down to extinction, so the precise molecular signature(s) of aversive experience and its predisposing genes will be hunted down and wiped out as well. The systematic application of nanotechnology, self-reproducing micro-miniaturised robots armed with supercomputer processing power, and ultra-sophisticated genetic engineering, perhaps using retro-viral vectors, will cure the root of all evil in its naturalistic guise throughout the living world. And once the pain has gone, with the right genes and designer drugs there's no reason why life shouldn't just get better and better.... "

44. SwetsWise: Login
    www.swetswise.com/link/access_db?issn=14320762 Open Directory - Science Biology sociobiology Against sociobiology - Tom Bethell speculates on what future generations will make of the controversy surrounding human sociobiology.  
    http://www.swetswise.com/link/access_db?issn=0340-5443

45. Zoology II - Scientific Report
    sociobiology and Ethology site, featuring research on the evolution of altruistic behavior of insects. University of W¼rzburg.  
    http://www.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de/bericht/zoo2/homepage_en.html

46. The New York Review Of Books: THE POLITICS OF SOCIOBIOLOGY
    Letter. THE POLITICS OF sociobiology. In response to The Illusion of sociobiology (October 12, 1978). Fortunately, human sociobiology has not gone unchallenged.  
    http://www.nybooks.com/articles/7782
    
    Extractions: @import "/css/default.css"; Home Your account Current issue Archives ... Email to a friend Letter In response to The Illusion of Sociobiology October 12, 1978 To the Editors We were pleased to read Stuart Hampshire's review of On Human Nature NYR , October 12) in which he shows the crucial philosophical flaws which undermine the entire structure of human sociobiology. However, in restricting himself purely to the philosophical problems inherent in On Human Nature , Hampshire neglected the social and political issues which are at the heart of the sociobiology controversy. Three years ago many of us wrote a letter ( NYR , November 13, 1975) in response to a review of E.O. Wilson's earlier book, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis , in which we pointed out the political content of this new field. We expressed concern at the likelihood that pseudo-scientific ideas would be used once more in the public arena to justify social policy. The events of the intervening years have fully justified our initial fears. Numerous articles in the popular media have used sociobiological theories to justify the status quo . In an article entitled, "A Genetic Defense of the Free Market,"

47. Woodhill Publishing: Purpose Of Life, A Book On Philosophy / Ethics / Evolution
    The Purpose of Life is summarised. This is a book on the philosophy of values and ethics from a viewpoint of evolution or sociobiology.  
    http://www.woodhillpublishing.co.uk
    
    Extractions: The Purpose of Life is an entirely non-mystical solution to the problem of moral philosophy derived with the aid of current ideas in biology and mathematical decision theory. Dr Cameron makes the ambitious claim to have solved the problem, for the first time providing objective answers to questions of values and ethics. Statements about value, purpose or morality are fundamentally different from statements about fact and scientific attempts to prove them from premises of fact must fail. The philosophers' principle that you cannot derive an "ought" from an "is" is valid. A value conclusion cannot be drawn from premises consisting only of facts. There must be at least one value premise. This result has been used by philosophers as a licence to pull complex value statements out of their culturally conditioned feelings before applying reasoning to them. The author uses a different approach. That is to seek the most basic, self-evident axioms of value. These are (a) to wish not to hold contradictory beliefs about values, (b) to reject nihilism (the idea that nothing matters at all) and (c) to wish one's values not to be a result of random accidental events, but to have a source of information. The only source of non-random information, which has created human values, including the human instinct to build an ethical culture, is the force of natural selection. The fact of evolution and, in particular, the modern analyses of the evolution of altruism and social behaviour are essential to understand any philosophy of values. It is astonishing that so many investigators of ethics have felt able to ignore them.

48. The New York Review Of Books: Against "Sociobiology"
    Letter. Against sociobiology . The latest attempt to reinvigorate these tired theories comes with the alleged creation of a new discipline, sociobiology.  
    http://www.nybooks.com/articles/9017
    
    Extractions: @import "/css/default.css"; Home Your account Current issue Archives ... Email to a friend Letter In response to Mindless Societies August 7, 1975 The following letter was prepared by a group of university faculty and scientists, high school teachers, doctors, and students who work in the Boston area To the Editors Each time these ideas have resurfaced the claim has been made that they were based on new scientific information. Yet each time, even though strong scientific arguments have been presented to show the absurdity of these theories, they have not died. The reason for the survival of these recurrent determinist theories is that they consistently tend to provide a genetic justification of the status quo and of existing privileges for certain groups according to class, race or sex. Historically, powerful countries or ruling groups within them have drawn support for the maintenance or extension of their power from these products of the scientific community. For example, John D. Rockefeller, Sr. said. These theories provided an important basis for the enactment of sterilization laws and restrictive immigration laws by the United States between 1910 and 1930 and also for the eugenics policies which led to the establishment of gas chambers in Nazi Germany.

49. Mary Midgley, A Philosopher That People Can Actually Understand!
    A very thorough site, containing links to many fulltext articles, on the long-standing critic of evolutionary psychology and sociobiology.  
    http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/~matzke/midgley/midgley.htm
    
    Extractions: What's hot: Mary, Mary, quite contrary " by Liz Else. A popular article title, it seems. Anyhow: " Mary Midgley is a woman on a mission. For two decades, Britain's most visible moral philosopher has laid into scientists who have tried to turn science into a religion. The big problem, says Midgley, is that it seduces people into believing in certainties and taking imperfect scientific metaphors as literal, revealed truth. Is it time to rethink science? Should we rename it? In her latest book, Midgley puts her money on Gaia as a guide. As she told Liz Else, Gaia might turn out to be that rare thingboth good science and good metaphor.

50. BBSPrints Archive: Browse By Subject: Sociobiology
    BBS nline BBSPrints Archive. Browse by Subject sociobiology. Mealey, Linda (1995) THE sociobiology OF SOCIOPATHY AN INTEGRATED EVOLUTIONARY MODEL.  
    http://www.bbsonline.org/view-bio-socio.html
    
    Extractions: Search ... This subject category contains entries Campbell, Anne Staying alive: Evolution, culture and women's intra-sexual aggression. Davey, Graham (1995) PREPAREDNESS AND PHOBIAS: SPECIFIC EVOLVED ASSOCIATIONS OR A GENERALIZED EXPECTANCY BIAS?. Domjan, Michael , Cusato, Brian and Villarreal, Ronald (2000) Pavlovian Feed-Forward Mechanisms in the Control of Social Behavior. Gurven, Michael To Give and to Give Not: the behavioral ecology of human food transfers. ... Wilson, David Sloan and Sober, Elliott (1994) RE-INTRODUCING GROUP SELECTION TO THE HUMAN BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES.

51. BBSPrints Archive: THE SOCIOBIOLOGY OF SOCIOPATHY: AN INTEGRATED EVOLUTIONARY MO
    THE sociobiology OF SOCIOPATHY AN INTEGRATED EVOLUTIONARY MODEL. Mealey, Linda (1995) THE sociobiology OF SOCIOPATHY AN INTEGRATED EVOLUTIONARY MODEL.  
    http://www.bbsonline.org/documents/a/00/00/05/20/
    
    Extractions: Mealey, Linda (1995) THE SOCIOBIOLOGY OF SOCIOPATHY: AN INTEGRATED EVOLUTIONARY MODEL. Full text available as: HTML Keywords: sociobiology, sociopathy, psychopathy, antisocial personality, evolution, criminal behavior, game theory, emotion, moral development, facultative strategies Subjects: Psychology: Behavioral Analysis

52. The Paula Gordon Show
    An interview with the author of 'sociobiology'.  
    http://www.paulagordon.com/shows/wilson/
    
    Extractions: The Paula Gordon Show The Science of Survival . . . is among the world’s great scientists. Author of two Pulitzer Prize winning books, Dr. Wilson spent a lifetime teaching at Harvard, where he earned his Ph.D. and which awarded him both of its college-wide teaching awards. Currently Professor and Honorary Curator of Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology, Dr. Wilson’s honors and awards include the National Medal of Science, top honors from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Worldwide Fund for Nature, the National Audubon Society, and Japan’s International Prize for Biology. He is on the Board of The Nature Conservancy, Conservation International and the American Museum of Natural History. Consilience, the Unity of Knowledge is his latest book. 3:32 secs The real work of the 21st century, according to the great Harvard scientist Edward O. Wilson, is to settle humanity down before we wreck the planet. Dr. Wilson says the explosion of the human population promises 8 billion people living on earth within 40 years (as compared to 2 billion in 1900.) It’s a vast bottleneck coinciding with a documented worldwide decline in arable land and water. And we people are pushing the rest of life off the face of the earth. But Wilson also offers both hope and plans for action. While Dr. Wilson expects the 21st century will be a scary rush of accelerating change, if and this is a very big “if” if we address our challenges of natural resources, conservation, and human population, we have a chance for a quieter, more secure time for humans and other forms of life on the other side.

53. Sociobiology - Edward O. Wilson
    From Edward O. Wilson, Introduction What is sociobiology? In Michael S. Gregory, Anita Silvers, and Diane Sutch (Eds.). Introduction What Is sociobiology?  
    http://www2.pfeiffer.edu/~lridener/courses/SOCBIO.HTML
    
    Extractions: From Edward O. Wilson, "Introduction: What is Sociobiology?" In Michael S. Gregory, Anita Silvers, and Diane Sutch (Eds.). 1978. Sociobiology and Human Nature: An Interdisciplinary Critique and Defense. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, pp. 1 - 12. I was surprisedeven astonishedby the initial reaction to Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (1975a). When the book was published in 1975, I expected a favorable reaction from other biologists. After all, my colleagues and I had merely been extending neo-Darwinism into the study of social behavior and animal societies, and the underlying biological principles we employed were largely conventional. The response was in fact overwhelmingly favorable. From the social scientists, I expected not much reaction. I took it for granted that the human species is subject to sociobiological analysis no less than to genetic or endocrinological analysis; the final chapter of my book simply completed the catalogue of social species by adding Homo sapiens . I hoped to make a contribution to the social sciences and humanities by laying out, in immediately accessible form, the most relevant methods and principles of population biology, evolutionary theory, and sociobiology. I expected that many social scientists, already convinced of the necessity of a biological foundation for their subject, would be tempted to pick up the tools and try them out. This has occurred to a limited extent, but there has also been stiff resistance. I now understand that I entirely underestimated the Durkheim-Boas tradition of autonomy of the social sciences, as well as the strength and power of the antigenetic bias that has prevailed as virtual dogma since the fall of Social Darwinism.

54. Sociobiology
    Read a variety of topics and views about sociobiology, the study of the biological basis of social behaviors. Animals / Wildlife, sociobiology Guide picks.  
    http://animals.about.com/cs/sociobiology/
    
    Extractions: zJs=10 zJs=11 zJs=12 zJs=13 zc(5,'jsc',zJs,9999999,'') About Homework Help Animals / Wildlife Scientific disciplines Sociobiology Home Essentials All about mammals Wildlife gardening tips ... Endangered species zau(256,152,145,'gob','http://z.about.com/5/ad/go.htm?gs='+gs,''); Amphibians Birds Fishes Invertebrates ... Help zau(256,138,125,'el','http://z.about.com/0/ip/417/0.htm','');w(xb+xb); Subscribe to the About Animals / Wildlife newsletter. Search Animals / Wildlife Sociobiology is the study of the biological basis of social behaviors. Alphabetical Recent Up a category Sociobiology Instinct, aggression, territoriality, and cooperation are some of the complex behaviors discussed in this introduction to the science of sociobiology. Sociobiology :: The new synthesis This review and discussion of Edward O. Wilson's book, Sociobiology, examines some of the controversy and implications related to this area of study. Kin selection and altruism This advanced scientific article, published originally in the 1998 Journal of Comparative Biology, touches upon topics such as non-adaptive altruism, parental care, group selection, and eusociality. The importance of being flashy Does more attractive physical ornamentation imply an individual is more fit? Does appearance influence reproductive success? Find out in this National Wildlife Federation article.

55. Sociobiology
    Read a variety of topics and views about sociobiology, the study of the biological basis of social behaviors. Search. Animals / Wildlife, sociobiology.  
    http://animals.about.com/od/sociobiology/
    
    Extractions: zJs=10 zJs=11 zJs=12 zJs=13 zc(5,'jsc',zJs,9999999,'') About Homework Help Animals / Wildlife Scientific disciplines Sociobiology Home Essentials All about mammals Wildlife gardening tips ... Endangered species zau(256,152,145,'gob','http://z.about.com/5/ad/go.htm?gs='+gs,''); Amphibians Birds Fishes Invertebrates ... Help zau(256,138,125,'el','http://z.about.com/0/ip/417/0.htm','');w(xb+xb); Subscribe to the About Animals / Wildlife newsletter. Search Animals / Wildlife Sociobiology is the study of the biological basis of social behaviors. Alphabetical Recent Up a category Sociobiology Instinct, aggression, territoriality, and cooperation are some of the complex behaviors discussed in this introduction to the science of sociobiology. Sociobiology :: The new synthesis This review and discussion of Edward O. Wilson's book, Sociobiology, examines some of the controversy and implications related to this area of study. Kin selection and altruism This advanced scientific article, published originally in the 1998 Journal of Comparative Biology, touches upon topics such as non-adaptive altruism, parental care, group selection, and eusociality. The importance of being flashy Does more attractive physical ornamentation imply an individual is more fit? Does appearance influence reproductive success? Find out in this National Wildlife Federation article.

56. Sociobiology - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
    sociobiologysociobiology. sociobiology is determinism. Wilson claimed he had never meant to imply that what is, ought to be. Science and sociobiology. Twin  
    http://www.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 2 Controversy 3 Science and Sociobiology 4 External references ... 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

57. Sociobiology Resources At Questia - The Online Library Of Books
    sociobiology. Questia. The World s Largest Online Library. Questia Subscribers Say Primary Content. sociobiology. Welcome to Questia  
    http://www.questia.com/Index.jsp?CRID=sociobiology&OFFID=se1

58. PTypes - Sociobiology
    sociobiology (evolutionary psychology). From Wilson s orthodox Darwinian sociobiology made countless enemies in academia. Centrist  
    http://www.geocities.com/ptypes/sociobiology.html
    
    Extractions: Darwin's Progress - National Review - Britannica.com Wilson's orthodox Darwinian sociobiology made countless enemies in academia. Centrist anthropologists John Tooby and Leda Cosmides accordingly relaunched sociobiology under the neutral name of "evolutionary psychology." Pronouncing themselves the truest True Believers in equality, Tooby and Cosmides portrayed human nature as almost monolithically uniform and proclaimed that evolutionary psychology should study only human similarities. But while egalitarianism served as a useful cover for infiltrating neo-Darwinism into academia, it proved a largely useless methodology for learning about humanity. Why? Because knowledge consists of contrasts. To learn much about human nature, we need to look for patterns of similarities and differences among humans.

59. Biology Sociobiology
    Richmond Virginia. Home sociobiology. Biology. Most comprehensive resource on Biology sociobiology. Show biology (Biology sociobiology  
    http://biology.designerz.com/biology-sociobiology.php

60. Sociobiology Home Page
    Welcome to the sociobiology Web Site. The serial sociobiology, published by California State University Chico, was founded by its  
    http://www.csuchico.edu/biol/Sociobiology/sociobiologyindex.html
    
    Extractions: The serial SOCIOBIOLOGY, published by California State University Chico, was founded by its present editor in 1975 to provide a more timely publication of quality papers by researchers of social animals. The serial has grown substantially since it was first published and as a result of the growth in computer based technologies, improvement in quality has been made as well. Over the years the majority of the papers have dealt with, but are not limited to, the various aspects of the biology of social insects such as termites and ants along with many of the insects associated with them.

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