Sociobiology

E. O. Wilson's Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (1975) and Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene (1976) marked a paradigm shift in behavioral biology and the social sciences. Sociobiology made the gene the basic unit of natural selection and “kin selection” or nepotism between close relatives the main source of sociality. It offered an elegant model for explaining both the similarities and the differences in the entire range of animal societies, from invertebrates to Homo sapiens . Its acceptance in the human behavioral sciences was reluctant and gradual, but it has now made substantial inroads in psychology, anthropology, and to a lesser degree sociology, political science, economics, and demography.

Biology · Epistemology · Homo sapiens · Kin selection · Natural selection · Population · Social science · Sociality · Sociobiology · Sociology · Anthropology · Demography · Ecology · Evolution and Genetic Dynamics · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation · Philosophy

• The genetical evolution of social behaviour. I

  Open Access•W D Hamilton•Journal of Theoretical Biology•1964

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• The Evolution of Reciprocal Altruism

  Robert L Trivers, Robert Trivers•The Quarterly Review of Biology•1971

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• Sociobiology

  Edward O Wilson•Sociobiology•2000

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