biosocialadj.

1893 F. C. French tr. E. DeRoberty La Recherche de l'Unité in Philos. Rev. 2 v. 602 Governed by the psychologic or bio-social law of the identity of absolute contraries, the supreme illusion lead us to take two subjective aspects of the same reality for two different objective realities.

1894 J. Izoulet La Cité Moderne i. i. 1 (title) Livre Premier. Exposé de notre hypothèse bio-sociale.]

1895 Monist 5 iv. 604 The guiding thought of his [sc. Izoulet's] work is to trace psychology and morals to biological conditions, to found a psychology and system of ethics which shall be ‘bio-social’.

1927 L. L. Bernard Introd. Social Psychol. i. v. 79 The physico-social and bio-social environments are intimately connected with human behavior.

1975 L. Leibowitz in R. Reiter Toward Anthropol. Women 22 Anthropologists and sociologists have picked up on these views and tied them to renewed investigations of biosocial evolution.

2000 Sci. Amer. May 86/1 While acknowledging that success in sports is a ‘bio-social phenomenon’, he asserts that ‘there is extensive and persuasive research that elite black athletes have a phenotypic advantage.’