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বাংলা català čeština dansk deutsch esperanto español eesti euskara فارسی suomi français galego עברית magyar bahasa indonesia ido italiano 日本語 қазақша 한국어 latina lingua franca nova lietuvių bahasa melayu nederlands norsk bokmål polski piemontèis پښتو português română русский srpskohrvatski српскохрватски simple english slovenčina slovenščina српски srpski svenska తెలుగు ไทย türkçe татарча tatarça українська اردو oʻzbekcha ўзбекча tiếng việt winaray 吴语 粵語 中文 edit links article talk english read edit view history tools tools move to sidebar hide actions read edit view history general what links here related changes upload file permanent link page information cite this page get shortened url switch to legacy parser print export download as pdf printable version in other projects wikimedia commons wikiquote wikidata item appearance move to sidebar hide from wikipedia the free encyclopedia subdiscipline of biology regarding social behavior for the book by e o wilson see sociobiology the new synthesis sociobiology is a field of biology that aims to explain social behavior in terms of evolution it draws from disciplines including ethology and evolutionary biology within the study of human societies sociobiology is closely related to evolutionary anthropology and human behavioral ecology sociobiology investigates social behaviors such as the hive society of social insects it argues that just as selection pressure led to animals evolving useful ways of interacting with the natural environment so it led to the genetic evolution of advantageous social behavior while the term sociobiology originated at least as early as the 1940s the concept did not gain major recognition until the publication of e o wilson s book sociobiology the new synthesis in 1975 the field quickly became the subject of scientific controversy critics led by richard lewontin and stephen jay gould argued that genes played a role in human behavior but that traits such as aggressiveness could be explained by social environment rather than by biology sociobiologists responded by pointing to the complex relationship between nature and nurture among sociobiologists the controversy between d s wilson and e o wilson on how much weight to assign to different levels of selection was settled in 2007 definition edit the entomologist e o wilson defined sociobiology as the extension of population biology and evolutionary theory to social organization 1 within the study of human societies sociobiology is closely related to sociology 2 3 sociobiology is based on the premise that some behaviors social and individual are at least partly inherited and can be affected by natural selection 4 5 the discipline seeks to explain behavior as a product of natural selection behavior is therefore seen as an effort to preserve one s genes in the population inherent in sociobiological reasoning is the idea that certain genes or gene combinations that influence particular behavioral traits can be inherited from generation to generation 6 for example newly dominant male lions often kill cubs in the pride that they did not sire this behavior is adaptive because killing the cubs eliminates competition for their own offspring and causes the nursing females to come into heat faster thus allowing more of the male s genes to enter into the population 7 history edit e o wilson a central figure in the history of sociobiology from the publication in 1975 of his book sociobiology the new synthesis the philosopher of biology daniel dennett suggested that the political philosopher thomas hobbes was the first proto sociobiologist arguing that in his 1651 book leviathan hobbes had explained the origins of morals in human society from an amoral sociobiological perspective 8 the animal behavior geneticist john paul scott coined the word sociobiology at a 1948 conference on genetics and social behavior which called for a conjoint development of field and laboratory studies in animal behavior research 9 once a specialist term sociobiology became widely known in 1975 when wilson published his book sociobiology the new synthesis 10 the biological anthropologist edward h hagen writes in the handbook of evolutionary psychology that sociobiology is despite the public controversy over its application to humans one of the scientific triumphs of the twentieth century 11 he adds that sociobiology is now part of the core research and curriculum of virtually all biology departments and it is a foundation of the work of almost all field biologists 11 sociobiological research on nonhuman organisms has increased dramatically and continuously in the world s top scientific journals such as nature and science 11 the more general term behavioral ecology is commonly substituted to avoid the public controversy 11 theory edit natural selection edit sociobiology is founded on the concept of evolution of adaptive behavioral traits by natural selection 4 sociobiologists maintain that human and other animal behavior can be partly explained as the outcome of natural selection they contend that to understand behavior fully it must be analyzed in terms of evolution principally by natural selection sociobiology is based upon two fundamental premises 4 certain behavioral traits are inherited inherited behavioral traits have been honed by natural selection and were adaptive in the environment in which they evolved nikolaas tinbergen whose four questions influenced sociobiology 12 sociobiology uses nikolaas tinbergen s four questions to search for explanations of animal behavior 12 two of these categories are at the species level the other two at the individual level the species level categories often called ultimate explanations are 13 the adaptive function that a behavior serves and the historical evolutionary process phylogeny that resulted in this functionality the individual level categories often called proximate explanations are 13 the development of the individual ontogeny and the proximate mechanism such as brain anatomy and hormones in humans edit behavioral traits such as creativity extroversion aggressiveness and iq have high heritability researchers are careful to point out that heritability does not constrain the influence that environmental or cultural factors may have on these traits 14 15 various theorists have argued that in some environments criminal behavior might be adaptive 16 the evolutionary neuroandrogenic theory by the sociologist lee ellis posits that sexual selection by women has led to increased competitive behavior among men sometimes resulting in criminality in another theory the evolutionary psychologist mark van vugt argues that a history of intergroup conflict for resources between men have led to differences in violence and aggression between men and women 17 the novelist elias canetti has described applications of sociobiological theory to cultural practices such as slavery and autocracy 18 genetics edit see also biological determinism genetic mouse mutants illustrate the power that genes exert on behavior for example the transcription factor fev aka pet1 through its role in maintaining the serotonergic system in the brain is required for normal aggressive and anxiety like behavior 19 thus when fev is genetically deleted from the mouse genome male mice will instantly attack other males whereas their wild type counterparts take significantly longer to initiate violent behavior in addition fev is required for correct maternal behavior in mice such that offspring of mothers without the fev factor do not survive unless cross fostered to wild type female mice 20 a genetic basis for instinctive behavioral traits among non human species is commonly accepted by biologists but attempts to explain complex behaviors in human societies with genetics has remained extremely controversial 21 22 reception edit the cognitive psychologist steven pinker argues that critics have been overly swayed by politics and a fear of biological determinism a accusing among others the paleontologist stephen jay gould and the evolutionary biologist richard lewontin of being radical scientists whose stance on human nature is influenced by politics rather than science 24 while lewontin the neuroscientist steven rose and the psychologist leon kamin who drew a distinction between the politics and history of an idea and its scientific validity argue that sociobiology fails on scientific grounds 25 gould grouped sociobiology with eugenics criticizing both in his 1981 book the mismeasure of man 26 when the cultural anthropologist napoleon chagnon scheduled sessions on sociobiology at the 1976 american anthropological association convention other scholars attempted to cancel them with what chagnon later described as impassioned accusations of racism fascism and nazism margaret mead s support caused the sessions to occur as scheduled 27 during a 1976 meeting of the sociobiology study group the philosopher and linguist noam chomsky argued for the importance of a sociobiologically informed notion of human nature 28 he stated that human beings are biological organisms and ought to be studied as such with his criticism of the blank slate doctrine in the social sciences in his 1975 reflections on language 29 chomsky further hinted at the possible reconciliation of his anarchist political views and sociobiology in a discussion of the anarchist russian political philosopher peter kropotkin s 1902 book of essays mutual aid a factor of evolution kropotkin focused more on altruism than aggression suggesting that anarchist societies were feasible because of an innate human tendency to cooperate 30 wilson said he had never meant to imply what ought to be only what is the case however some critics countered that the language of sociobiology readily slips from is to ought 25 an instance of the naturalistic fallacy pinker has argued that opposition to stances considered anti social such as ethnic nepotism is based on moral 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