sociobiology
English
Etymology
socio- + biology, popularized by E. O. Wilson's Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (1975).
Noun
sociobiology (usually uncountable, plural sociobiologies)
- The science that applies the principles of evolutionary biology to the study of social behaviour in both humans and animals.
- 1999, Peter Koslowski, Sociobiology and Bioeconomics: The Theory of Evolution in Biological and Economic Theory, Springer Science & Business Media (→ISBN), page 1:
- Sociobiology forms a unifying theory of the social interactions in the human and in the animal world. Its principle unifying human and animal societies is the maximisation of genetic fitness by the individual.
- 1999, Peter Koslowski, Sociobiology and Bioeconomics: The Theory of Evolution in Biological and Economic Theory, Springer Science & Business Media (→ISBN), page 1:
Translations
science that applies the principles of evolutionary biology to the study of social behaviour
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Further reading
- sociobiology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia