A survey of advanced social organization in insects calls into question the standard explanation for eusociality Biologist Edward O. Wilson argues that natural selection acting on emergent traits of ...

Sociobiology is the study of the sociality of social animals. It began in 1976 with a book, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, by the famous myrmecologist E.O. Wilson. He devoted the last chapter of his ...

Pioneering biologist, environmental activist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edward O. Wilson has died. He was 92. The influential and sometimes controversial Harvard professor first made his name ...

Biologist Edward O. Wilson died at 92 the day after Christmas, taking his leave with the same discretion that governed his conduct as a scientist. His passing, however, was not greeted in all quarters ...

Thinking Big: How the Evolution of Social Life Shaped the Human Mind Clive Gamble, John Gowlett and Robin Dunbar. Thames and Hudson: 2014. Sociobiology was born in 1975, when biologist Edward O.

If Steven Pinker’s latest 500-page treatise on the brain, The Blank Slate, serves any wider purpose in the popular discussion of science issues, it will, one hopes, be the final demoliti By signing up ...

. J. Alcock. Oxford University Press, New York. 2001. Pp. 257. Price £16.95, hardback. ISBN 0-19-514383-3. ‘No triumph of sociobiology without evolutionary psychology’ Although you cannot tell by ...

Sociobiology is less of a field than it is a series of footpaths through a field. The most well-trod of the bunch is the one that leads toward behavioral ecology, the hypothesis that human behavior is ...

Researchers have conducted one of the first quantitative studies of social structure and social foraging in Antarctic minke whales, using pioneering animal-borne camera tags. In primates, the biggest, ...

Medicine and War, Vol. 1, No. 3 (SEP-DEC 1985), pp. 201-208 (8 pages) Sociobiology is a recent outgrowth of ethology, the discipline concerned specifically with the study of animal behaviour. Its ...