This month we are going to look at the theory of sociobiology. - TopicsExpress



          

This month we are going to look at the theory of sociobiology. This is quite a contentious subject and a relatively new one. What is sociobiology? It is a way to (at least partially) explain the social behavior of animals and humans based on the assumption that behavior is controlled by genes that evolved over time. Sociobiology looks at how behaviors are programmed and then spread through the population through natural selection. Sociobiology gained notoriety when in 1975 Edward O. Wilson wrote a book synthesizing several ideas present since the 40’s. In this new theory, genes became the center of attention, playing the ultimate role in an animal’s behavior.
Posted on: Mon, 05 May 2014 16:00:01 +0000

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