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The branch of biology that conducts comparative studies of the social organization of animals (including human beings) with regard to its evolutionary history
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sociobiology
Word definitions for sociobiology in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Sociobiology is a field of scientific study that is based on the hypothesis that social behavior has resulted from evolution and attempts to examine and explain social behavior within that context. It is a branch of biology that deals with social behavior, ...
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The science that applies the principles of evolutionary biology to the study of social behaviour in both humans and animals
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"study of the biological basis of social behavior," 1946, from socio- + biology . Related: Sociobiological .
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n. the branch of biology that conducts comparative studies of the social organization of animals (including human beings) with regard to its evolutionary history
Usage examples of sociobiology.
They may be invoked to privilege the personal, to protect us from a crassly reductionist biology - at its worst, vulgar sociobiology - but such attempts at privilege merely serve to harden the resolve of biological reductionists, and to encourage the fragmentation of our understanding of what can ultimately only be understood as a unitary world.
For the sociobiology debate, see, on the one side, Wilson, E O sociobiology, the new Synthesis, Harvard University Press, 1975, or Dawkins, R The Selfish Gene, Oxford, 1976, and these two authors' several subsequent books.