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Sociobiology, Sex, and Science (SUNY Series in Philosophy and Biology) by Harmon R. Holcomb III, 1993-01-07 Sociobiology and the Preemption of Social Science by Professor Alexander Rosenberg, 1980-11-01 The One Per Cent Advantage: The Sociobiology of Being Human by John R. Gribbin, Mary Gribbin, 1988-05 A Sociobiology Compendium: Aphorisms, Sayings, Asides by Del Thiessen, 1997-04-01 Sociobiology and the Human Dimension (Volume 0) by Georg Breuer, 1983-03-31 Listen to the animals: The fundamentals & rationale of sociobiology by E. Gordon Dickie, 1977 Toward a New Science of Man: Quotations for Sociobiology by Robert Lenski, 1981-06 Sociobiology and Behavior by David P. Barash, 1982-09 Animal Cooperation: A Look at Sociobiology by Hallie Black, 1988-11 Ethics of Capitalism and Critique of Sociobiology: Two Essays with a Comment by James M. Buchanan (Studies in Economic Ethics and Philosophy) by Peter Koslowski, 2010-11-02 Sociobiology And The Arts. by Brett Cooke, Jan Baptist Bedaux, 1998-01 Sociobiology and Human Nature: An Interdisciplinary Critique and Defense (Jossey-Bass social and behavioral science series) by Michael Steven Gregory, 1978-10 Sociobiology: The Whisperings within by David P. Barash, 1980-03-20 Primates of South Asia: Ecology, Sociobiology, and Behavior by M. L. Roonwal, S. M. Mohnot, 1977-07-01

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21. Sociobiology
    sociobiology. Dr. C. George Boeree Shippensburg University. sociobiology.Ever since Darwin came out with his theory of  
    http://www.ship.edu/~cgboeree/genpsysociobiology.html
    
    Extractions: Shippensburg University Sociobiology Ever since Darwin came out with his theory of evolution, people - including Darwin himself have been speculating on how our social behaviors (and feelings, attitudes, and so on) might also be affected by evolution. After all, if the way our bodies look and work as biological creatures can be better understood through evolution, why not the things we do with those bodies? The entemologist (bug scientist) E. O Wilson was the first to formalize the idea that social behavior could be explained evolutionarily, and he called his theory sociobiology . At first, it gained attention only in biological circles even there it had strong critics. When sociologists and psychologists caught wind of it, the controversy really got started. At that time, sociology was predominantly structural-functionalist, with a smattering of Marxists and feminists. Psychology was still dominated by behaviorist learning theory, with humanism starting to make some headway. Not one of these theories has much room for the idea that we, as human beings, could be so strongly determined by evolutionary biology! Over time, Wilson's sociobiology found more and more supporters among biologists, psychologists, and even anthropologists. Only sociology has remained relatively unaffected.

22. Sociobiology
    sociobiology as an Adaptationist Program RC Lewontin RC sociobiologyis an extension of this type of evolutionary argument. Whereas  
    http://www.psych.nwu.edu/~coriat/sociobiology.htm

23. Social Psychology Basics
    Electronic textbook by Professor George Boeree, with chapter topics including person perception, persuasion, conformity, and sociobiology.  
    http://www.ship.edu/~cgboeree/socpsy.html

24. Ethologische Station Sennickerode, Universität Göttingen
    The Sennickerode Field Station constitutes G¶ttingen University's primate research and teaching facility. Its primary focus is on primate behavioral biology in the fields of applied ethology, ecoethology and sociobiology. A further point of research emphasizes human and non-human primate evolution in consideration and advancement of phylogenetic methodology.  
    http://www.gwdg.de/~hrothe1/englisch/

25. Jim Moore Home Page
    sociobiology (UC San Diego, USA)  
    http://weber.ucsd.edu/~jmoore/
    
    Extractions: Research interests: Generally, the relationships among demography and ecology in the evolution of complex sociality. How are age and 'altruism' related? Rainfall and coalition formation? Things like that. One application of such an approach is to the study of early hominid behavioral ecology, and a lot of my current work relates to that. At right, I'm collecting hair from a chimpanzee nest in Ugalla, Tanzania (the hair yields DNA for population genetic work, and the location of nests can tell us about ape use of savanna habitats). Email: jjmoore@ucsd.edu Publications Things I've worked on... (includes complete text of some papers) BioAnthro at UCSD Some general information on biological anthropology. Courses A variety of handouts and other teaching- related materials. STUDENTS: this is the place for handouts on research papers, who cares about fossil names, and other nifty things. African Ape Study Sites This is an archive of information on field sites where gorillas, chimpanzees and bonobos have been studied. It is intended for use by researchers interested in comparative socioecology, and contains data, maps, photographs, site bibliographies and the like. For material on ape conservation, see Great apes in the wild (WWF) and the Bushmeat Crisis Task Force Southern California Primate Research Forum This is a twice-annual conference (meetings generally in April and November) that alternates among various colleges, universities and zoos in SoCal. Link to see past and future programs, register, etc.

26. Kristen Hawkes
    Anthropology professor at the University of Utah interested in documenting the sociobiology of huntergatherers.  
    http://www.anthro.utah.edu/hawkes.html

27. Napoleon Chagnon's War Of Discovery
    An article describing Chagnon's contributions to the field of human sociobiology.  
    http://cogweb.english.ucsb.edu/Abstracts/Chagnon_00.html
    
    Extractions: Sunday, January 30, 2000 A cigarette dangles from Napoleon Chagnon's lips as he reaches into the little refrigerator under his desk for a beer. He exhales a cloud, snaps open the can and pauses to say that the moment he is about to describe is a sacred one. He takes a long swig. It's the Venezuelan jungle in the 1960s. Chagnon is a young anthropologist. The green forest parts and a small, powerfully built man emerges, naked and proud. "He has a glint in his eye, a light you don't see in other people," Chagnon continues. "He is defiant, arrogant, king of the world. He is completely free to do whatever he wants, and that includes bashing your head in or being your friend." It is the first time this jungle dweller has encountered anyone from the outside world. "I want to know him and his culture, before he disappears." Chagnon has spent much of his life studying those Yanomamo people, who number some 23,000 in the Amazon basin, and there is still much more to know. Yet it appears his work is finished before it can be completed. At 61, this inveterate smoker and beer drinker, this irrepressible raconteur, is one of a disappearing breedthe swashbuckling anthropologist. And his research and manner haven't just earned him fame and respect. They've also made him reviled and ostracized. Sporting a gray beard and safari vest, he seems ready for the jungle, looking more like Papa Hemingway in the bush than a professor behind his desk at UC Santa Barbara. But the truth is that he hasn't been allowed to visit the Yanomamo in years.

28. BioMedNet Journal Collection
    Evolutionary psychology, neurobiology, and sociobiology. Professional journal. Abstracts, archives, selected fulltext articles at no charge. Complete articles downloadable for a fee. BioMedNet registration required.  
    http://www.biomednet.com/library/bbe

29. Sociobiology Sanitized: The Evolutionary Psychology And Genic Selectionism Debat
    sociobiology SANITIZED THE EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY AND GENIC SELECTIONISMDEBATES. FROM sociobiology TO EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY.  
    http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/rmy/dusek.html

30. Springer LINK: Behavioral Ecology And Sociobiology
    Tables of contents and article abstracts from this SpringerVerlag journal. Complete article texts are available in PDF format to print subscribers.  
    http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/journals/00265/

31. Behavior OnLine: Evolutionary Psychology
    Brief introduction to evolutionary psychology and sociobiology.  
    http://www.behavior.net/column/brody/
    
    Extractions: EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIOBIOLOGY, AND CLINICAL PHENOMENA James Brody, Ph.D. Adapted Mind , (Oxford, 1992) rests on assumptions that: the human mind is a mosaic of "information processing systems" that are extraordinarily efficient in handling specific kinds of stimuli and responses to them, human evolution has been generally static since the Pleistocene, these systems are "content specific" and generate many invariant aspects of human culture. There are problems and benefits with this view. EP would appear to share the same circular morass of the Instinct Crowd from decades ago. ("Why do we eat cheese?" "It's instinctive." "How do we know it's instinctive?" "Because so many of us do it.") There are two escapes: (1) EP will use hunter-gatherer hypotheses to generate predictions about unstudied, subtle aspects of human performance in cognitive and social tasks. (2) It also tries to weaken the circularity issue by specifying physiological systems that solve an adaptive problem. Rather than assuming the independent evolution of a dozen components that just happen to work well together, EP asks "What adaptive problem is solved? What physiological resources would be needed to solve it? Is it possible that visual and motor systems work so well because their interplay led to fuller bellies at some point long ago?"

32. Science As Culture - SOCIOBIOLOGY SANITIZED: THE EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY AND GEN
    Sociopolitical overview of the circumstances leading to the development of Evolutionary Psychology as distinct from sociobiology, by Val Dusek. This web page is associated with the Science-as-Culture mailing list and journal.  
    http://human-nature.com/science-as-culture/dusek.html
    
    Extractions: Evolutionary Psychology Online The Open Directory by Val Dusek Amazon US UK I Two decades later the debate concerning the genetic determination of human behavior has been reanimated in the general intellectual and middle-brow media with a somewhat more restrained tone. The study of evolutionary accounts of human behavior is now called "evolutionary psychology" to avoid some of the justifiably bad connotations that were associated with sociobiology. During the last few years the linguist Steve Pinker, ( ) philosopher Daniel Dennett, ( ) New Republic editor and science popularizer Robert Wright,( ) and science writer Matt Ridley ( ) have produced feisty, polemical expositions of evolutionary psychology for a broad audience. Stephen J. Gould has returned to the breach to criticize evolutionary psychology, but several writers considered to be on the left have defended sociobiological approaches and criticized postmodern rejection of biologism. The core theories of evolutionary psychology are the same as those of sociobiology. Several of the commonly made distinctions between evolutionary psychology and sociobiology turn out not to distinguish the two. So what has changed and what is new?

33. ScienceDirect - Ethology And Sociobiology - List Of Issues
    sociobiologysociobiology, sociobiology http//www.psych.nwu.edu/~sengupta/sociob.htmlSummary and criticism of Philip Kitcher's and RC Lewontin's ideas.  
    http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01623095
    
    Extractions: Volume 15 Volume 15, Issues 5-6 , Pages 245-400 (September - November 1994) Volume 15, Issue 4 , Pages 181-243 (July 1994) Volume 15, Issue 3 , Pages 113-179 (May 1994) Volume 15, Issue 2 , Pages 59-111 (March 1994) Volume 15, Issue 1 , Pages 1-58 (January 1994) Volume 14 Volume 13 Volume 12 Volume 11 ... Volume 1

34. American Scientist - Scientists' Bookshelf
    John Dupr© reviews 'Defenders of the Truth The Battle for Science in the sociobiology Debate and Beyond' by Ullica Segerstr¥le.  
    http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/Leads01/defenders.html
    
    Extractions: John Dupre Defenders of the Truth: The Battle for Science in the Sociobiology Debate and Beyond. In 1975, Harvard University Press published a large and glossy book by the distinguished entomologist E. O. Wilson, titled Sociobiology: The New Synthesis. The interest driving the book is the relation between science and values. Segerstråle tries to identify the broad normative projects that motivated various protagonists in the debate as well as the views of science and of the relationship between science and values that they were explicitly or implicitly promoting. After following these issues through the intricacies of scientific and often overtly political debate for 400 pages, she concludes that the normative commitments of scientists are a good thing: The heated controversy science generates provides a good part of what drives it forward. The hero of the story is undoubtedly E. O. Wilson. Wilson’s odyssey through two distinct versions of sociobiology, the defense of biodiversity, his concept of biophilia and a reductionist vision of the unity of knowledge is presented as an epic journey to save the human race from the dangers of our genetic heritage. Although the carping of the moral readers and weeders sometimes helps him to recognize errors and pitfalls in his journey, their role is a much less heroic one. A scientific quest such as Wilson’s, driven but not distorted by moral passion, exemplifies the relation between values and science that Segerstråle seems most strongly to favor.

35. Paul Ehrlich Challenges Evolutionary Psychology And The 'selfish Gene' In His Ne
    Ehrlich's book 'Human Natures' builds on evolutionary psychology and sociobiology.  
    http://www.stanford.edu/dept/news/pr/00/humans920.html
    
    Extractions: e-mail: mshwartz@stanford.edu Do "selfish genes" program men to be more promiscuous than women? Beneath the veneer of civility, are people innately aggressive? Some researchers and a growing segment of the general population - would answer "yes" to those and a host of other questions, suggesting that we are tightly programmed by our genes. But according to Stanford evolutionist Paul R. Ehrlich, there is little scientific basis for such widely accepted notions. Ehrlich challenges the so-called "selfish gene" and other tenets of evolutionary psychology in his wide-ranging new book , Human Natures: Genes, Cultures and the Human Prospect (Shearwater Books/Island Press, Washington, D.C.).

36. Animal Behavior And Sociobiology
    Animal Behavior and sociobiology, Lecture ethology. Originally called sociobiology,today it is often referred to as evolutionary psychology.  
    http://www.science.mcmaster.ca/psychology/psych1a6/1aa3/anbehavmenu.htm
    
    Extractions: Animal Behavior and Sociobiology Lecture 1: In this lecture we introduce the field of animal behavior, and its roots in European ethology and North American comparative psychology. We then discuss the kinds of questions that animal behaviorists ask, with some examples from specific species. Lecture 2: In this lecture we look at one of the most influential models in animal behavior: the psychohydraulic model of Konrad Lorenz. We will explore the ways in which this model accounts for a number of features of animal behavior. Lecture 3: In this lecture we will look at the several shortcomings of Lorenz' psychohydraulic model, and look at several alternative models for animal behavior: homeostatic models, and optimization models. Lecture 4: In this lecture we introduce an influential approach to human social behavior that arose from animal behavior and ethology. Originally called sociobiology, today it is often referred to as evolutionary psychology. It argues that many aspects of human social behavior are affected by genetic predispositions shaped by evolution. In this lecture we consider how sociobiology might make sense out of a number of male-female differences in behavior.

37. Jerome H. Barkow's Page
    Evolutionary psychology, sociobiology, human reproductive behaviour (Dalhousie University, Canada).  
    http://is.dal.ca/~barkow/home.htm

38. About - Sociobiology
    Read a variety of topics and views about sociobiology, the study of the biologicalbasis of social behaviors. Advertisement. sociobiology Guide picks.  
    http://animals.about.com/cs/sociobiology/

39. 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

40. 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.

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