"Sociobiology" explores the possibility that animal social
behaviour--group living, kinship, attraction and mating,
reciprocity and sharing, cooperation, conflict, and cheating, to
name just the most familiar--has a genetic basis and can be shaped
by natural selection: genes can be shaped by natural selection:
genes can code for social behaviours in the same way that they code
for body parts such as hands, hooves, eyes, antlers and ears. But,
in an audacious final chapter, Wilson extended the analysis to
humans: biology had grabbed our kinship, cooperation, mate
preferences and the rest. Some branded Wilson and his ideas
fascist, others as racist or guilty of genetic determinism. They
are none of these things and, two Pulitzer Prizes later, Wilson has
been vindicated...Wilson's Sociobiology laid the foundations for a
lifetime of meditations.--Mark Pagel "Times Higher Education
Supplement "
A towering theoretical achievement of exceptional elegance...Like
most great books, "Sociobiology" is unpedantic, lucid, and
eminently accessible.--Pierre L. van den Berghe "Contemporary
Sociology "
It is impossible to leave Wilson's book without having one's sense
of life permanently and dramatically widened.--Fred Hapgood "The
Atlantic "
It's been 25 years since E. O. Wilson wrote "Sociobiology", naming
a new science and starting it off with a bang--and a firestorm of
protest. "Nurture!" and "Nature!" came the cries from every corner
of the academic world, as the book became a "causus belli" for
sociologists, feminists, human geneticists, and
psychologists.--Mary Ellen Curtin "amazon.com "
Its contents do indeed provide a new synthesis, of wide perspective
and great authority...Wilson's plain uncluttered prose is a treat
to read, his logic is rigorous, his arguments are lucid.--V. C.
Wymne-Edwards "Nature "
Rarely has the world been provided with such a splendid stepping
stone for an exciting future of a new science.--John Tyler Bonner
"Scientific American "
This book enthralls and enchants...If you have this book...you can
begin getting your mind ready for the illuminations about human
society.--Lewis Thomas "Harper's "
It's been 25 years since E. O. Wilson wrote Sociobiology, naming a
new science and starting it off with a bang--and a firestorm of
protest. "Nurture!" and "Nature!" came the cries from every corner
of the academic world, as the book became a causus belli for
sociologists, feminists, human geneticists, and psychologists.
Sociobiology explores the possibility that animal social
behaviour--group living, kinship, attraction and mating,
reciprocity and sharing, cooperation, conflict, and cheating, to
name just the most familiar--has a genetic basis and can be shaped
by natural selection: genes can be shaped by natural selection:
genes can code for social behaviours in the same way that they code
for body parts such as hands, hooves, eyes, antlers and ears. But,
in an audacious final chapter, Wilson extended the analysis to
humans: biology had grabbed our kinship, cooperation, mate
preferences and the rest. Some branded Wilson and his ideas
fascist, others as racist or guilty of genetic determinism. They
are none of these things and, two Pulitzer Prizes later, Wilson has
been vindicated...Wilson's Sociobiology laid the foundations for a
lifetime of meditations.
Sociobiology is an excellent book, full of extraordinary insights,
and replete with the beauty and poetry of the animal kingdom.
from every corner of the academic world, as the book became a
"causus belli" for sociologists, feminists, human geneticists, and
psychologists.
or guilty of genetic determinism. They are none of these things
and, two Pulitzer Prizes later, Wilson has been
vindicated...Wilson's Sociobiology laid the foundations for a
lifetime of meditations.
"Sociobiology" is an excellent book, full of extraordinary
insights, and replete with the beauty and poetry of the animal
kingdom.
Sociobiology, a new concept, is one with extraordinary potential
value for understanding and explaining human behavior.
This book will stand as a landmark in the comparative study of
social behavior.
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