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Sociobiology: Sense or Nonsense? (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
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Sociobiology: Sense or Nonsense? (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Series: Episteme, 8
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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 com prehensive 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 com
pensated 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 in cluding our own species, Homo
sapiens. Initial reaction to the book was very favourable, but
before the year was out it came under withering attack from a group
of radical scientists in the Boston area, who styled themselves
'The Science for the People Sociobiology Study Group'. Criticism,
of course, is what every academic gets (and needs ); but, for two
reasons, this attack was particularly unpleasant. First, not only
were Wilson's ideas attacked, but he himself was smeared by being
linked with the most reactionary of political thinkers, including
the Nazis."
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