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THE EXPLANATORY FAILURE OF SOCIOBIOLOGY

 by

Glenn Statile

Saint John’s University

 

1)      SOCIOBIOLOGY – THE NEW SYNTHESIS

Although evolutionary biology and issues of social concern were first brought together in an inflammatory way by Herbert Spencer under the banner of Social Darwinism in the 19th century, this combustible mixture of interests has only recently been rekindled to the point of public prominence as the result of the publication of Edward Wilson’s Sociobiology: The New Synthesis in 1975.  What is purportedly new in the branch of science known as sociobiology is the way in which various scientific disciplines, such as ethology, ecology, and population genetics are bound together in a powerful interpretive synthesis so as to enable a genetically enhanced Darwinism  to encompass both human behavior and culture within its scope.  According to sociobiological dogma there is a biological basis to the social behavior of both humans and animals.    Wilson began to expand upon this doctrine for the case of human behavior systematically for the first time in On Human Nature (1978), although he did briefly address the topic at the end of Sociobiology. 

 
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