Knowledge: sociobiology
See Also:
- computers → artificial life
- science → biology → evolution
- science → biology → genetics
- science → biology → zoology → animal behavior
- science → social sciences → anthropology
Links
- The Pythagorean Perspective: The Arts and Sociobiology
http://www.percepp.demon.co.uk/pythagor.htm - A paper exploring the idea that cultural evolution is a manifestation of biological evolution.
- Behavioural Ecology Research Group, Oxford
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~kgroup/ - Research group studying animal learning, memory, and decision-making, using experimental psychology and evolutionary biology as tools. Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.
- Sociobiology
http://www.ship.edu/~cgboeree/sociobiology.html - Explains major concepts of Sociobiology, including Ethology, Evolution, Attraction, Sexual Dimorphism, Imprinting, Kin Selection, Reciprocal Altruism, and Dominance Hierarchies. Contrasts the roles of Sociobiology and Culture.
- The Purpose of Life
http://www.woodhillpublishing.co.uk - The Purpose of Life is summarised. This is a book on the philosophy of values and ethics from a viewpoint of evolution or sociobiology.
- Archive site for Kenan Malik
http://www.kenanmalik.com - Essays, papers, lectures and reviews on Darwinism, evolutionary psychology, race, philosophy and history. Also extracts from Kenan Malik's books 'Man, Beast and Zombie' and 'What is it to be Human?'.
- History of Sociobiology
http://peace.saumag.edu/faculty/Kardas/Courses/GPWeiten/C1Intro/Sociobiology.html - A brief historical perspective from Southern Arkansas University.
- Exorcising Sociobiology
http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/19/feb01/pgross.htm - Biologist Paul Gross on the relationship between sociobiology and recent scandals in anthropology.
- A reduction of "Species"
http://lifesci.rutgers.edu/~heylab/sconcept/introduction.html - Online paper by Jody Hey,Department of Genetics, Rutgers University.
- Sociobiology: Human Behavior and Evolution
http://home1.gte.net/ericjw1/sociobiology.html - A useful bibliography.
- Human Genetics for the Social Sciences
http://psych.colorado.edu/hgss/ - Text, figures, and learning exercises in human behavioral genetics
- Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/demonicmales.htm - Chapter one of the book by Richard Wrangham and Dale Petersen.
- Animal behavior and sociobiology courses
http://biology.unm.edu/biology/pwatson/public_html/pjw_cv.htm - Research and teaching in animal and human behavior by Dr. Paul J. Watson, University of New Mexico and Flathead Lake Biological, Montana. Field courses, graduate and independent study student supervision, and workshops.
- Digit Ratio: A Pointer to Fertility, Behavior and Health by John T. Manning
http://human-nature.com/nibbs/02/manning.html - Michael Mills examines the claim that digit ratio allows us infer whether an individual is likely to have homosexual inclinations, be highly fertile, may eventually suffer from a heart attack or breast cancer, have musical aptitude or sporting prowess, and a surprisingly long list of other characteristics.
- About.com - Konrad Lorenz
http://atheism.about.com/library/glossary/general/bldef_lorenzkonrad.htm - Short biography of Lorenz focuses on his research into innate animal behavior and his book "On Aggression."
- Great Ideas in Personality - Evolutionary Psychology and Sociobiology
http://www.personalityresearch.org/evolutionary.html - Includes links to research papers, web sites, and other reference sources.
- CogPrints: Sociobiology
http://cogprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/view/subjects/bio-socio.html - Original scientific papers on the subject.
- Smithsonian Magazine - What's for Dinner?
http://www.smithsonianmagazine.com/issues/2002/january/dinner.php - Photographer Peter Menzel posed the Natomos, the Cavens and five other "statistically average" families with the food they eat in a week.
- Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
http://www.springer.com/dal/home?SGWID=1-102-70-1071249-detailsPage=journal|description|descript... - Tables of contents and article abstracts from this Springer-Verlag journal. Complete article texts are available in PDF format to print subscribers.
- Connotea: Sociobiology
http://www.connotea.org/rss/search?q=Sociobiology - Offers links to news and journal articles.
- Against Sociobiology
http://www.firstthings.com/article.php3?id_article=2126 - Tom Bethell speculates on what future generations will make of the controversy surrounding human sociobiology.
- Sociobiology: The New Religion
http://www.faithscience.org/oldsite/articles/90s/blackwell2.html - Dr. Richard J. Blackwell Department of Philosophy St. Louis University. This paper was presented at the ITEST Conference on The State of the Art in March, 1980. Dr. Blackwell is well versed in the philosophy of science and has written many papers on various aspects of that field.
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