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A Sociobiology Compendium

Author : Del Thiessen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351290347
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book A Sociobiology Compendium written by Del Thiessen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novelist Joseph Conrad expressed a great truth when he said: "The mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future," Our evolutionary history of noble acts and foul deeds, leading to survival and reproduction, guarantees that we understand the most essential facets of our physical and social environment. The nature of our struggles--our lusts, our fears, our objectivity, our irra-tionality--lies embedded in our cellular DNA and the neurons of our mind, there to play itself out much like it did in the past and much like it will in the future. Many have seen the links between our minds and the universe, the common thread of our existence and the inevitability of our loves and hates. This book includes many demonstrations that our nature has been on the minds and lips of many--poets, play-wrights, philosophers, historians, novelists, kings, slaves, religious leaders, and the great-est of knaves. From Ralph Waldo Emerson to Arthur Schopenhauer, from Aldous Huxley to Arthur Conan Doyle, from Aristotle to William Shakespeare, the truths about our-selves have come tumbling out. Reflecting on their thoughts we see ourselves. The universal nature of our being reflects our common origins and our bittersweet destiny. In A Sociobiology Compendium, Del Thiessen mines the richness of biological inves-tigations of human behavior, comparing current views of human behavior with expres-sions by non-scientists who have, in one way or another, touched the evolutionary strings of men and women. He begins each section with a brief account of biological notions of human behavior. The book shows in astonishing ways how the earlier thoughts of men and women from all cultures anticipate the biological observations about our being. A Sociobiology Compendium will be engaging reading for all psychologists, sociologists, and biologists.

A Sociobiology Compendium

Author : Delbert D. Thiessen
Publisher : Transaction Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781560003724
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book A Sociobiology Compendium written by Delbert D. Thiessen and published by Transaction Pub. This book was released on 1998 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To demonstrate the point that much of what we "know" today about romantic love, criminality, creativity, and death has been known since the earliest times, the author compares current "scientific findings" in sociobiology with the highly entertaining "non-scientific" voices of poets, playwrights, and philosophers from Buddha to Shakespeare to Simone Weil and all points in between. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Sociobiology

Author : Edward O. Wilson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674000896
Total Pages : 732 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Sociobiology written by Edward O. Wilson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2000-03-24 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When this work was first published it started a tumultuous round in the age-old nature versus nurture debate. It shows how research in human genetics and neuroscience has strengthened the case for biological understanding of human nature.

The Triumph of Sociobiology

Author : John Alcock
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198032897
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book The Triumph of Sociobiology written by John Alcock and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-06-28 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Triumph of Sociobiology, John Alcock reviews the controversy that has surrounded evolutionary studies of human social behavior following the 1975 publication of E.O. Wilson's classic, Sociobiology, The New Synthesis. Denounced vehemently as an "ideology" that has justified social evils and inequalities, sociobiology has survived the assault. Twenty-five years after the field was named by Wilson, the approach he championed has successfully demonstrated its value in the study of animal behavior, including the behavior of our own species. Yet, misconceptions remain--to our disadvantage. In this straight-forward, objective approach to the sociobiology debate, noted animal behaviorist John Alcock illuminates how sociobiologists study behavior in all species. He confronts the chief scientific and ideological objections head on, with a compelling analysis of case histories that involve such topics as sexual jealousy, beauty, gender difference, parent-offspring relations, and rape. In so doing, he shows that sociobiology provides the most satisfactory scientific analysis of social behavior available today. Alcock challenges the notion that sociobiology depends on genetic determinism while showing the shortcoming of competing approaches that rely on cultural or environmental determinism. He also presents the practical applications of sociobiology and the progress sociobiological research has made in the search for a more complete understanding of human activities. His reminder that "natural" behavior is not "moral" behavior should quiet opponents fearing misapplication of evolutionary theory to our species. The key misconceptions about this evolutionary field are dissected one by one as the author shows why sociobiologists have had so much success in explaining the puzzling and fascinating social behavior of nonhuman animals and humans alike.

Sociobiology Compendium

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (484 download)

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Defenders of the Truth

Author : Ullica Christina Olofsdotter Segerstråle
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Defenders of the Truth written by Ullica Christina Olofsdotter Segerstråle and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insightful look at the sociobiology debate and what it tells readers about the nature of science and its roll in society. "Defenders of the Truth" will appeal to all those who enjoy a behind-the-scenes peek at modern science.

Sociobiology, Sex, and Science

Author : Harmon R. Holcomb III
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438406940
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Sociobiology, Sex, and Science written by Harmon R. Holcomb III and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1993-01-07 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines sociobiology's validity and significance, using the sociobiological theory of the evolution of mating and parenting as an example. It identifies and discusses the array of factors that determine sociobiology's effort to become a science, providing a rare, balanced account—more critical than that of its advocates and more constructive than that of its critics. It sees a role for sociobiology in changing the way we understand the goals of evolutionary biology, the proper way to evaluate emerging sciences, and the deep structure of scientific theories. The book's premise is that evolutionary biology would not be complete if it did not explain evolutionarily significant social facts about nonhumans and humans. It proposes that explanations should be evaluated in terms of their basis in underlying theories, research programs, and conceptual frameworks.

Sociobiology

Author : Edward O. Wilson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674744179
Total Pages : 711 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Sociobiology written by Edward O. Wilson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2000-03-24 with total page 711 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When 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. The controversy surrounding the book's publication--and surrounding its central claim that human social behavior has a biological foundation--reverberates to this day. In the introduction to this twenty-fifth anniversary edition, Edward O. Wilson shows how research in human genetics and neuroscience over the past quarter of a century has strengthened the case for a biological understanding of human nature.

The Use and Abuse of Biology

Author : Marshall Sahlins
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472766000
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book The Use and Abuse of Biology written by Marshall Sahlins and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A criticism of sociobiology by one of the world's foremost anthropologists

The Sociobiology Debate

Author : Arthur L. Caplan
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Sociobiology Debate written by Arthur L. Caplan and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1978 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sociobiology and the Preemption of Social Science

Author : Alexander Rosenberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781421435442
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (354 download)

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Download or read book Sociobiology and the Preemption of Social Science written by Alexander Rosenberg and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why have the social sciences in general failed to produce results with the ever-increasing explanatory power and predictive strength of the natural sciences? In seeking an answer to this question, Alexander Rosenberg, a philosopher of science, plunges into the controversial discipline of sociobiology. Sociobiology, Rosenberg asserts, deals in those forces governing human behavior that traditional social science has unsuccessfully attempted to slip between: neurophysiology, on the one hand, and selective forces, on the other. Unlike previous works in the two fields it straddles, Rosenberg's book brings thinking about the nature of scientific theorizing to bear on the most traditional issues in the philosophy of social science. The author finds that the subjects of conventional social science do not reflect the operation of laws that social scientists are equipped to discover. The author argues that much of the debate surrounding sociobiology is irrelevant to the issue of its ultimate success. Although largely conceptual, the book is an unequivocal defense of this new theory in the explanation of human behavior.

The Social Meaning of Modern Biology

Author : Howard Kaye
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351473948
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book The Social Meaning of Modern Biology written by Howard Kaye and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Social Meaning of Modern Biology analyzes the cultural significance of recurring attempts since the time of Darwin to extract social and moral guidance from the teachings of modern biology. Such efforts are often dismissed as ideological defenses of the social status quo, of the sort wrongly associated with nineteenth-century social Darwinism. Howard Kaye argues they are more properly viewed as culturally radical attempts to redefine who we are by nature and thus rethink how we should live. Despite the scientific and philosophical weaknesses of arguments that "biology is destiny," and their dehumanizing potential, in recent years they have proven to be powerfully attractive. They will continue to be so in an age enthralled by genetic explanations of human experience and excited by the prospect of its biological control.In the ten years since the original edition of The Social Meaning of Modern Biology was published, changes in both science and society have altered the terms of debate over the nature of man and human culture. Kaye's epilogue thoroughly examines these changes. He discusses the remarkable growth of ethology and sociobiology in their study of animal and human behavior and the stunning progress achieved in neuropsychology and behavioral genetics. These developments may appear to bring us closer to long-sought explanations of our physical, mental, and behavioral "machinery." Yet, as Kaye demonstrates, attempts to use such explanations to unify the natural and social sciences are mired in self-contradictory accounts of human freedom and moral choice. The Social Meaning of Modern Biology remains a significant study in the field of sociobiology and is essential reading for sociologists, biologists, behavioral geneticists, and psychologists.

Sociology

Author : Rosemary L. Hopcroft
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351688960
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Sociology written by Rosemary L. Hopcroft and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-21 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an era of human genome research, environmental challenges, new reproductive technologies, and more, students can benefit from introductory sociology text that is biologically informed. This innovative text integrates mainstream sociological research in all areas of sociology with a scientifically informed model of an evolved, biological human actor. This text allows students to better understand their emotional, social, and institutional worlds. It also illustrates how biological understanding naturally enhances the sociological approach. This grounding of sociology in a biosocial conception of the individual actor is coupled with a comparative approach, as human biology is universal and often reveals itself as variations on themes across human cultures. Tables, figures, and photos, and the author’s concise and remarkably lively style make this a truly enjoyable book to read and teach.

Sociobiology: Beyond Nature/nurture?

Author : George W Barlow
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000240215
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Sociobiology: Beyond Nature/nurture? written by George W Barlow and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-26 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To most biologists, sociobiology represents the concept of strict Darwinian individual selection married to an analytical application of ecological principles and brought to bear on social behavior in an unusually exciting and productive way. Joining the biologists are a small number of social scientists. But there are radically divergent views as to how the field should be delimited, and sociobiology is one of the most widely discussed fields in biology and anthropology today. The symposium on which this book is based was arranged by a biologist and an anthropologist. The participants, leaders in their fields, ably present contrasting and responsible views on current issues. This is the first collection of essays on sociobiology in which opposing views are aired. It is an exciting, timely book and an important historical document.

Sociobiology: Sense or Nonsense?

Author : Michael Ruse
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400993897
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Sociobiology: Sense or Nonsense? written by Michael Ruse and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In June 1975, the distinguished Harvard entomologist Edward O. Wilson published a truly huge book entitled, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis. In this book, drawing on both fact and theory, Wilson tried to present a com prehensive overview of the rapidly growing subject of 'sociobiology', the study of the biological nature and foundations of animal behaviour, more precisely animal social behaviour. Although, as the title rather implies, Wilson was more surveying and synthesising than developing new material, he com pensated by giving the most thorough and inclusive treatment possible, beginning in the animal world with the most simple of forms, and progressing via insects, lower invertebrates, mammals and primates, right up to and in cluding our own species, Homo sapiens. Initial reaction to the book was very favourable, but before the year was out it came under withering attack from a group of radical scientists in the Boston area, who styled themselves 'The Science for the People Sociobiology Study Group'. Criticism, of course, is what every academic gets (and needs!); but, for two reasons, this attack was particularly unpleasant. First, not only were Wilson's ideas attacked, but he himself was smeared by being linked with the most reactionary of political thinkers, including the Nazis.

The Social Meaning of Modern Biology

Author : Howard L. Kaye
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300034974
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book The Social Meaning of Modern Biology written by Howard L. Kaye and published by . This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Sociobiological Imagination

Author : Mary Maxwell
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791407684
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book The Sociobiological Imagination written by Mary Maxwell and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1991-09-19 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents reports on the uses of sociobiology and general evolutionary theory by members of diverse disciplines: psychiatry, law, management theory, anthropology, economics, primatology, history, political science, ethical philosophy, cognitive psychology, epistemology, socioecology of religion, studies of conflict, Marxist thought, aesthetics, sociology, linguistics, and psychology. The purpose of the book is threefold to acknowledge the remarkably wide influence of a central idea; to demonstrate that the research of human sociobiology takes place in disparate fields; and to introduce the major principles of sociobiology. There are many surprises to be found in these pages, not least the psychiatrists new look at anxiety, the management theorists explanation for the success of Japanese firms, the Soviet philosophers report on sociobiology in the U. S. S. R., the explanation given for the keeping of harems in ancient kingdoms, and the economists view as to why people care if a bargain price is really a fair price all cast in sociobiological terms.