Abstract
In June 1975, the distinguished Harvard entomologist Edward O. Wilson published a truly huge book entitled, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis. In this book, drawing on both fact and theory, Wilson tried to present a comprehensive overview of the rapidly growing subject of ‘sociobiology’, the study of the biological nature and foundations of animal behaviour, more precisely animal social behaviour. Although, as the title rather implies, Wilson was more surveying and synthesising than developing new material, he compensated by giving the most thorough and inclusive treatment possible, beginning in the animal world with the most simple of forms, and progressing via insects, lower invertebrates, mammals and primates, right up to and including our own species, Homo sapiens.
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Ruse, M. (1979). Introduction. In: Sociobiology: Sense or Nonsense?. Episteme. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9389-1_1
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