sociobiology
Sign in to saveSociobiology is a field of biology that aims to explain social behavior in terms of evolution. It draws from disciplines including psychology, ethology, anthropology, evolution, zoology, archaeology, and population genetics. Within the study of human societies, sociobiology is closely related to evolutionary anthropology, human behavioral ecology, evolutionary psychology, and sociology.
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Sociobiology is a field of biology that explains why animals and humans behave socially the way they do by looking at how evolution shaped those behaviors. It combines insights from multiple sciences—including psychology, genetics, and anthropology—to understand everything from family structures to cooperation and conflict in both human and animal societies.
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- Definition
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- Natural selection
- In humans
- Genetics
- Reception
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Sociobiology is a field of biology that aims to explain social behavior in terms of evolution. It draws from disciplines including psychology, ethology, anthropology, evolution, zoology, archaeology, and population genetics. Within the study of human societies, sociobiology is closely related to evolutionary anthropology, human behavioral ecology, evolutionary psychology, and sociology.
Sociobiology investigates social behaviors such as mating patterns, territorial fights, pack hunting, and the hive society of social insects. It argues that just as selection pressure led to animals evolving useful ways of interacting with the natural environment, so also it led to the genetic evolution of advantageous social behavior.