Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, Twenty-Fifth Anniversary EditionWhen this classic work was first published in 1975, it created a new discipline and started a tumultuous round in the age-old nature versus nurture debate. Although voted by officers and fellows of the international Animal Behavior Society the most important book on animal behavior of all time, Sociobiology is probably more widely known as the object of bitter attacks by social scientists and other scholars who opposed its claim that human social behavior, indeed human nature, has a biological foundation. The controversy surrounding the publication of the book reverberates to the present day. |
Contents
The DualitiesofEvolutionary Biology Reasoning inSociobiology 3 The Prime MoversofSocial Evolution Phylogenetic Inertia Ecological Pressure Th... | |
Group Selection and Altruism | |
Altruistic Behavior The Field ofRighteousness Part II SocialMechanisms 6 Group Size Reproduction andTimeEnergy The Determinants of Group Siz... | |
The Development and Modificationof Social Behavior Tracking the Environmentwith Evolutionary Change | |
Basic Principles Human versusAnimal Communication Discrete versusGraded Signals | |
Functions and Complex Systems The Functions of Communication | |