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n. - The comparative study of communities and organized groups and behavior in animals including humans especially with regard to genetic basis and evolutionary history

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  • This one is about sociobiology which is where evolution crashes into sociology.
  • He based his seminal theory of "sociobiology" on his observations of ant behavior.
  • It might seem, then, that they should accept Wilson's "sociobiology," which he had defined in the first chapter of
  • Fortunately, human sociobiology has not gone unchallenged.
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