sociobiology

Now sociobiology flamed out very quickly due to the backlash that EO Wilson received after the publication of his book Sociobiology in the mid 1970s.

It's probably defensive because most folks in the sociology / humanities departments _hate_ evolutionary psychology, sociobiology etc.

A number of left-wingers attacked Wilson following Sociobiology and it's been open-season on him ever since 2.

The Use and Abuse of Biology: An Anthropological Critique of Sociobiology is a 1976 book by American cultural anthropologist Marshall Sahlins.

Evolutionary sociobiology holds the opposite: that marriage evolved to get men to stick around.

Wilson severely underplayed the connection between sociobiology and eugenics and Nazism that came before.

Though challenging the status quo might require you to go against your sociobiology.

The critics were right that EP is _basically_ rebranded sociobiology.

Evolutionary sociobiology is consistently deployed to reinforce pre-existing values (e.g.

It's an overview of sociobiology in a popular magazine.

The SA article was terribly written and argued, but Wilson's own words in that interview greatly increased my sympathy for Wilson's critics who were suspicious of sociobiology.

The problem with sociobiology or evolutionary psychology etc.

Philip Kitcher's Vaulting Ambition: Sociobiology and the Quest for Human Nature (MIT Press, 1987) is a thorough devastating takedown of sociobiology, especially what Kitcher calls "pop sociobiology".

Pentland (2007), "Eigenbehaviors: Identifying Structure in Routine", Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology (in submission).

You can handwave about this and say "well sociobiology isn't meant to explain everything" but aren't cognitive-cultural phenomena the crux of its limitations?

And actually, the incentives to "subsidize" the disadvantage have always been there (why do middle-class atheists give to charity?), but that gets into sociobiology.

Wilson was badly attacked by Marxists in the 1970's for his book on ants, Sociobiology.

Sociobiology particularly suffers this condition, and evolutionary psychology was basically written by Rudyard Kipling.

Wilson published Sociobiology, it generated a firestorm of criticism, mostly focused on the book's final chapter, in which Wilson applied lessons learned from animal behavior to human society.