A paper exploring the idea that cultural evolution is a manifestation of biological evolution.
Research group studying animal learning, memory, and decision-making, using experimental psychology and evolutionary biology as tools. Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.
Explains major concepts of Sociobiology, including Ethology, Evolution, Attraction, Sexual Dimorphism, Imprinting, Kin Selection, Reciprocal Altruism, and Dominance Hierarchies. Contrasts the roles of Sociobiology and Culture.
Tom Bethell speculates on what future generations will make of the controversy surrounding human sociobiology.
The Purpose of Life is summarised. This is a book on the philosophy of values and ethics from a viewpoint of evolution or sociobiology.
Essays, papers, lectures and reviews on Darwinism, evolutionary psychology, race, philosophy and history. Also extracts from Kenan Malik's books 'Man, Beast and Zombie' and 'What is it to be Human?'.
A brief historical perspective from Southern Arkansas University.
Biologist Paul Gross on the relationship between sociobiology and recent scandals in anthropology.
Online paper by Jody Hey,Department of Genetics, Rutgers University.
A useful bibliography.
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