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SOCIOBIOLOGY

Imagine:

Conclusion

A poisonous snake is in front of you and you run away.

Genes and Behaviors

Do you run away because of the behaviors you inherited or is it because you learned it from other people?

  • nature vs nurture
  • humans aren't predictable
  • human genome
  • raises ethical/moral questions
  • no clear answer

by Diane Hoang

http://animals.howstuffworks.com/snakes/rattlesnake-info.htm

Is It All in the Genes?

Francis Fukuyama

  • Emile Durkeheim's "rule"
  • human behavior/culture "socially constructed"
  • Dolly, human genome
  • Carl Brigham: IQ test
  • gender roles
  • human behavior influenced by genetic inheritance

Works Cited

Questions?

Barkow, Jerome H. “Culture and Sociobiology.” American Anthropologist. 80.1 (1978): 5-20. JSTOR. Web. 20 Feb. 2013.

Flew, Antony. "E.O. Wilson After Twenty Years: Is Human Sociobiology Possible?." Philosophy of the Social Sciences. 24 (1994): 320-335. Social Sciences Full Text. Web. 20 Feb. 2013.

Fukuyama, Francis. "Is It All In The Genes?." Commentary. 104 (1997): 30-35. Humanities Full Text. Web. 15 Feb. 2013.

Wilson, Edward O. Naturalist. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1994. Print.

Naturalist

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/jul/15/zoology-biology

Edward Wilson

  • naturalist
  • biologist
  • entomologist
  • myrmecology

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Meat_eater_ant_feeding_on_honey02.jpg

Culture and Sociobiology

Antony Flew

E.O. Wilson After Twenty Years: Is Human Sociobiology Possible?

Jerome Barkow

  • sociobiology = evolutionary biology
  • works for animals
  • human behavior = culturally/biologically organized
  • culture has evolved
  • can't reject sociobiology
  • humans too complex
  • can't study ourselves
  • genes aren't the full picture

What is sociobiology?

Define:

Known as:

the study of the evolution of social behavior in organisms

  • natural selection
  • "survival of the fittest"
  • "founder" of sociobiology

Who:

Controversy:

Edward O. Wilson

Critiques

  • Moral
  • Political
  • Human beings
  • 27th chapter
  • mixed reviews

Ch 16: Attaining Sociobiology

"Wilson, you're all wet!"

How much do genes impact human behaviors?

http://simania.co.il/bookdetails.php?item_id=762298

But why?

http://www.plexusinstitute.org/?sawilson

"The ice-water episode may be the only occasion in recent American history on which a scientist was physically attacked, however mildly, simply for the expression of an idea."

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