Sociobiology: The New Synthesis

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Sociobiology: The New Synthesis
Author Edward O. Wilson
Subject(s) Sociobiology
Publisher Harvard University Press
Publication date 1975
Pages 697
ISBN ISBN 0-674-00235-
Followed by Genes, Mind and Culture: The coevolutionary process

Sociobiology: The New Synthesis is a book written by E. O. Wilson, which started the sociobiology debate, one of the great scientific controversies in biology of the 20th century. Wilson popularized the term "sociobiology" as an attempt to explain the evolutionary mechanics behind social behaviors such as altruism, aggression, and nurturance.

The book was first published in 1975, then reprinted in 1976. A twenty-fifth anniversary edition was published in 2000 by the Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.


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