Sociobiology, the New Synthesis: Edward O. Wilson

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Sociobiology was published in 1975. Four years earlier its author had published “an enormous and definitive book” on social insects, a work which established him as the world authority on that subject. In Sociobiology, Wilson set out to apply evolutionary theory to social behaviour not only in insects but throughout the animal kingdom. As a biologist he naturally included man among the animals, but it was this which caused the uproar. Had he omitted his last 33 pages-the chapter on “Man: from sociobiology to sociology” - his book would probably have led a quiet life as a well-written semipopular textbook on social animals.

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