Social Biology
Evolutionary Psychology
Behavioral Ecology
By Joshua and Rene and Jim
The Morality of the Gene
Edward Wilson
The Problematics of Altruism
The Chicken is only the         Eggs way of making more Eggs
Samuel Butler
Resolved by Kinship
Sociology, Sensu Stricto, stands apart from Sociobiology
Q: "Does the Absurd dictate Death?"
A: "the struggle toward the heights is itself enough to fill a man's heart."
~ Albert Camus, Philosopher
The Hypothalmic-Limbic System
Social Species
"Knows" underlying genes will be Proliferated through an appropriate mix of survival, reproduction, and altruism
Emotional Ambivalence as a result of 
counteracting pressures of Natural Selection
Love/Hate
Aggression/Fear
Flamboyance/Resevedness
Happy/Sad
Nonsyntactical Signals
Neo-Darwinistic Evolutionary Theory
Social Sciences and Humanities still to be incorporated
Modern Syhthesis
Has important role in group structure
Probably chief generative force of sociality
Marked importance in Insect Societies
Self-Existance v. Suicide
The Good of the Individual v. The Good of the Family v. The Good of the Tribe
Rhesus Macaques and Termites
DIGRESSION ALERT
FURTHER DIGRESSION ALERT
Altruism
Atruism, per Wilson, is the result of a heritable genetic trait
Altruistic acts reduce personal fitness by increasing group fitness
Central Theoretical Problem of Sociobiology
A philosphy of Dichotomies
The
Love v. Hate
Dualism v. Paradox
Hamilton's Rule
rb>c
Relatedness x benefit > cost of altruistic act