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human animal, and it’s relation to the behavioral aspects of social insect
populations, so maybe you see where this is going. And so, without further
ado, I present his most defining theories…
• Sociobiology
– Defines social behaviors as a product of evolution and
attempts to examine social behavior as such. Just as
natural selection places pressures on organisms
leading to the most ‘fit’ methods of environmental
interaction, genetic tendencies toward beneficial social
behavior also arise. It views evolution as not only a
means to derive the best physical traits given a
particular environment, but also as a method by which
the most profitable social behaviors are selected for. Dr.
Wilson defined sociobiology as the “extension of
population biology and evolutionary theory to social
organization”.
– Lett defines sociobiology as social “reductionism”, defined
as the theory that every complex phenomenon can be
explained by analyzing the simplest, most basic
physical mechanisms that are in operation during the
phenomenon. (Dictionary.com)
Sociobiology (cont.)
• The basic tenets of the theory are:
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