Definition of sociobiology in English:

sociobiology

noun ˌsəʊsɪəʊbʌɪˈɒlədʒiˌsəʊʃɪəʊbʌɪˈɒlədʒiˌsoʊsioʊˌbaɪˈɑlədʒi

mass noun

The scientific study of the biological (especially ecological and evolutionary) aspects of social behaviour in animals and humans.
Example sentencesExamples
- The initiation of foraging during the life course of honeybee workers is of central interest to understanding the division of labor in social insects, a central theme in sociobiology and behavioral research.
- Chapters 3, 4 and 5 present biological theories: sociobiology, behavioural ecology, and evolutionary psychology.
- For the last 30 years of his life, he placed a number of bird houses in his garden and established a colony of European Starlings to study their sociobiology, especially polygyny.
- Behavioral ecology is a naturalistic perspective somewhat similar to sociobiology.
- The original edition of The Tangled Wing, published more than two decades ago, was one of the first - and surely one of the most exhaustive - books on human behavior to hit the shelves during the heyday of sociobiology.
- In the 1990s, sociobiology was reborn as evolutionary psychology.
- The perspective sociobiology and evolutionary psychology open up on human affairs is one that is likely to shake and enhance the entire worldview of the person who discovers it.
- Kim is one of the rare critics of evolutionary psychology and sociobiology who tries very hard to do what he thinks is the right way to incorporate evolution and mind, rather than carping from the sidelines.
- Many silly things were said, and consequently a number of people who previously marched under the flag of sociobiology now call themselves evolutionary psychologists.
- However, evolutionary psychology differs from sociobiology in a number of fundamental ways.
- He was a sharp critic of the application of sociobiology to human behavior that developed following the publication of E. O. Wilson's Sociobiology in the 1970's.
- Now, in Why Men Won't Ask for Directions, Richard C. Francis takes on evolutionary psychology and sociobiology from a new perspective - as a neurobiologist.
- Unlike sociobiology and evolutionary psychology, these efforts do not ground their analyses in genes.
- Understanding how the activities of individual colony members give rise to these colony patterns is a key question in insect sociobiology.
- Like sociobiology, evolutionary psychology has attracted more than its fair share of critics.
- Identifying the communicative interactions among workers that regulate polyethism remains as a central challenge to insect sociobiology.
- Even though sociobiology never became exactly fashionable, many biologists eventually warmed up to the ideas, albeit tweaking and interpreting them in a new and modern way.
- Primitively eusocial wasps of the genus Polistes have played a pivotal role as ‘hypothesis generating model organisms’ in sociobiology and kin selection theories.
- The third reason is to encourage a focus on aspects of evolution sometimes obscured by controversial issues, such as sociobiology and evolutionary psychology.
- In the mid-1980s one group began to organise itself around a version of sociobiology that they named evolutionary psychology.

Derivatives

sociobiological

adjective ˌsəʊʃɪəʊbʌɪəˈlɒdʒɪk(ə)lˌsəʊsɪəʊbʌɪəˈlɒdʒɪk(ə)l

Although he dedicated only a short final chapter of the book to human behaviour, the ensuing debate focused almost entirely on the possibility of applying sociobiological tools to humans.
Example sentencesExamples
- The range of emotions to which the sociobiological hypothesis can be applied, however, is relatively narrow.
- It is well suited for a popular readership seeking a general understanding of sociobiological causes for human actions.
- But because Stephen Jay Gould's essays, such as those in Natural History, are widely read by the public, his views may influence popular opinion away from sociobiological perspectives on human behavior.
- Ruse is a philosopher of science, a defender of evolutionary theory against ‘creation science,’ and an outspoken defender of sociobiological modes of understanding human behavior.

sociobiologically

adverbˌsəʊʃɪəʊbʌɪəˈlɒdʒɪk(ə)liˌsəʊsɪəʊbʌɪəˈlɒdʒɪk(ə)li

‘Together with previous research,’ Chen explains, ‘our findings suggest that women may be better able to perceive differences associated with emotionally and sociobiologically significant signals.’
Example sentencesExamples
- Were the Americans of a century ago sociobiologically different from the Americans of today?
- In Practical Ecocriticism, Love argues for sociobiologically informed criticism, and applies it to themes of place in Willa Gather, animals in Ernest Hemingway, and the ecological in William Dean Howells.
- A 100 year timescale to me is long enough that I suspect that the human race will be in a very different place sociobiologically or our current socioeconomic structure will have collapsed under the burden of its incompatibility with our biological heritage.
- Much sociobiologically informed literary interpretation implicitly assumes that psychological norms shaped by the ancestral environment will provide direct keys to the meaning of cultural artifacts, including literary works.

sociobiologist

noun

When it comes to the development of behaviour, sociobiologists are even more keenly aware of the crucial role of environment in bringing about behaviour.
Example sentencesExamples
- For the sociobiologists, human social behaviors came into existence as unintended and unconscious results of various natural threats to our species.
- A major concern of sociobiologists is the nature and origin of altruistic behavior: Why has altruism evolved?
- Anthropologists and sociobiologists have emphasized the role that gift exchange plays in developing relationships in various societies.
- Such behavioral features that are apparently universal throughout the species are often, on that basis, assumed, particularly by sociobiologists, to represent biologically determined behaviors.

Definition of sociobiology in US English:

sociobiology

nounˌsoʊsioʊˌbaɪˈɑlədʒiˌsōsēōˌbīˈäləjē

The scientific study of the biological (especially ecological and evolutionary) aspects of social behavior in animals and humans.
Example sentencesExamples
- Kim is one of the rare critics of evolutionary psychology and sociobiology who tries very hard to do what he thinks is the right way to incorporate evolution and mind, rather than carping from the sidelines.
- Identifying the communicative interactions among workers that regulate polyethism remains as a central challenge to insect sociobiology.
- Now, in Why Men Won't Ask for Directions, Richard C. Francis takes on evolutionary psychology and sociobiology from a new perspective - as a neurobiologist.
- Many silly things were said, and consequently a number of people who previously marched under the flag of sociobiology now call themselves evolutionary psychologists.
- Even though sociobiology never became exactly fashionable, many biologists eventually warmed up to the ideas, albeit tweaking and interpreting them in a new and modern way.
- Chapters 3, 4 and 5 present biological theories: sociobiology, behavioural ecology, and evolutionary psychology.
- Unlike sociobiology and evolutionary psychology, these efforts do not ground their analyses in genes.
- In the 1990s, sociobiology was reborn as evolutionary psychology.
- The perspective sociobiology and evolutionary psychology open up on human affairs is one that is likely to shake and enhance the entire worldview of the person who discovers it.
- For the last 30 years of his life, he placed a number of bird houses in his garden and established a colony of European Starlings to study their sociobiology, especially polygyny.
- Like sociobiology, evolutionary psychology has attracted more than its fair share of critics.
- However, evolutionary psychology differs from sociobiology in a number of fundamental ways.
- Understanding how the activities of individual colony members give rise to these colony patterns is a key question in insect sociobiology.
- Behavioral ecology is a naturalistic perspective somewhat similar to sociobiology.
- The third reason is to encourage a focus on aspects of evolution sometimes obscured by controversial issues, such as sociobiology and evolutionary psychology.
- The initiation of foraging during the life course of honeybee workers is of central interest to understanding the division of labor in social insects, a central theme in sociobiology and behavioral research.
- Primitively eusocial wasps of the genus Polistes have played a pivotal role as ‘hypothesis generating model organisms’ in sociobiology and kin selection theories.
- He was a sharp critic of the application of sociobiology to human behavior that developed following the publication of E. O. Wilson's Sociobiology in the 1970's.
- The original edition of The Tangled Wing, published more than two decades ago, was one of the first - and surely one of the most exhaustive - books on human behavior to hit the shelves during the heyday of sociobiology.
- In the mid-1980s one group began to organise itself around a version of sociobiology that they named evolutionary psychology.

单词	sociobiology
释义	Definition of sociobiology in English: sociobiology noun ˌsəʊsɪəʊbʌɪˈɒlədʒiˌsəʊʃɪəʊbʌɪˈɒlədʒiˌsoʊsioʊˌbaɪˈɑlədʒi mass noun The scientific study of the biological (especially ecological and evolutionary) aspects of social behaviour in animals and humans. Example sentencesExamples The initiation of foraging during the life course of honeybee workers is of central interest to understanding the division of labor in social insects, a central theme in sociobiology and behavioral research. Chapters 3, 4 and 5 present biological theories: sociobiology, behavioural ecology, and evolutionary psychology. For the last 30 years of his life, he placed a number of bird houses in his garden and established a colony of European Starlings to study their sociobiology, especially polygyny. Behavioral ecology is a naturalistic perspective somewhat similar to sociobiology. The original edition of The Tangled Wing, published more than two decades ago, was one of the first - and surely one of the most exhaustive - books on human behavior to hit the shelves during the heyday of sociobiology. In the 1990s, sociobiology was reborn as evolutionary psychology. The perspective sociobiology and evolutionary psychology open up on human affairs is one that is likely to shake and enhance the entire worldview of the person who discovers it. Kim is one of the rare critics of evolutionary psychology and sociobiology who tries very hard to do what he thinks is the right way to incorporate evolution and mind, rather than carping from the sidelines. Many silly things were said, and consequently a number of people who previously marched under the flag of sociobiology now call themselves evolutionary psychologists. However, evolutionary psychology differs from sociobiology in a number of fundamental ways. He was a sharp critic of the application of sociobiology to human behavior that developed following the publication of E. O. Wilson's Sociobiology in the 1970's. Now, in Why Men Won't Ask for Directions, Richard C. Francis takes on evolutionary psychology and sociobiology from a new perspective - as a neurobiologist. Unlike sociobiology and evolutionary psychology, these efforts do not ground their analyses in genes. Understanding how the activities of individual colony members give rise to these colony patterns is a key question in insect sociobiology. Like sociobiology, evolutionary psychology has attracted more than its fair share of critics. Identifying the communicative interactions among workers that regulate polyethism remains as a central challenge to insect sociobiology. Even though sociobiology never became exactly fashionable, many biologists eventually warmed up to the ideas, albeit tweaking and interpreting them in a new and modern way. Primitively eusocial wasps of the genus Polistes have played a pivotal role as ‘hypothesis generating model organisms’ in sociobiology and kin selection theories. The third reason is to encourage a focus on aspects of evolution sometimes obscured by controversial issues, such as sociobiology and evolutionary psychology. In the mid-1980s one group began to organise itself around a version of sociobiology that they named evolutionary psychology. Derivatives sociobiological adjective ˌsəʊʃɪəʊbʌɪəˈlɒdʒɪk(ə)lˌsəʊsɪəʊbʌɪəˈlɒdʒɪk(ə)l Although he dedicated only a short final chapter of the book to human behaviour, the ensuing debate focused almost entirely on the possibility of applying sociobiological tools to humans. Example sentencesExamples The range of emotions to which the sociobiological hypothesis can be applied, however, is relatively narrow. It is well suited for a popular readership seeking a general understanding of sociobiological causes for human actions. But because Stephen Jay Gould's essays, such as those in Natural History, are widely read by the public, his views may influence popular opinion away from sociobiological perspectives on human behavior. Ruse is a philosopher of science, a defender of evolutionary theory against ‘creation science,’ and an outspoken defender of sociobiological modes of understanding human behavior. sociobiologically adverbˌsəʊʃɪəʊbʌɪəˈlɒdʒɪk(ə)liˌsəʊsɪəʊbʌɪəˈlɒdʒɪk(ə)li ‘Together with previous research,’ Chen explains, ‘our findings suggest that women may be better able to perceive differences associated with emotionally and sociobiologically significant signals.’ Example sentencesExamples Were the Americans of a century ago sociobiologically different from the Americans of today? In Practical Ecocriticism, Love argues for sociobiologically informed criticism, and applies it to themes of place in Willa Gather, animals in Ernest Hemingway, and the ecological in William Dean Howells. A 100 year timescale to me is long enough that I suspect that the human race will be in a very different place sociobiologically or our current socioeconomic structure will have collapsed under the burden of its incompatibility with our biological heritage. Much sociobiologically informed literary interpretation implicitly assumes that psychological norms shaped by the ancestral environment will provide direct keys to the meaning of cultural artifacts, including literary works. sociobiologist noun When it comes to the development of behaviour, sociobiologists are even more keenly aware of the crucial role of environment in bringing about behaviour. Example sentencesExamples For the sociobiologists, human social behaviors came into existence as unintended and unconscious results of various natural threats to our species. A major concern of sociobiologists is the nature and origin of altruistic behavior: Why has altruism evolved? Anthropologists and sociobiologists have emphasized the role that gift exchange plays in developing relationships in various societies. Such behavioral features that are apparently universal throughout the species are often, on that basis, assumed, particularly by sociobiologists, to represent biologically determined behaviors. Definition of sociobiology in US English: sociobiology nounˌsoʊsioʊˌbaɪˈɑlədʒiˌsōsēōˌbīˈäləjē The scientific study of the biological (especially ecological and evolutionary) aspects of social behavior in animals and humans. Example sentencesExamples Kim is one of the rare critics of evolutionary psychology and sociobiology who tries very hard to do what he thinks is the right way to incorporate evolution and mind, rather than carping from the sidelines. Identifying the communicative interactions among workers that regulate polyethism remains as a central challenge to insect sociobiology. Now, in Why Men Won't Ask for Directions, Richard C. Francis takes on evolutionary psychology and sociobiology from a new perspective - as a neurobiologist. Many silly things were said, and consequently a number of people who previously marched under the flag of sociobiology now call themselves evolutionary psychologists. Even though sociobiology never became exactly fashionable, many biologists eventually warmed up to the ideas, albeit tweaking and interpreting them in a new and modern way. Chapters 3, 4 and 5 present biological theories: sociobiology, behavioural ecology, and evolutionary psychology. Unlike sociobiology and evolutionary psychology, these efforts do not ground their analyses in genes. In the 1990s, sociobiology was reborn as evolutionary psychology. The perspective sociobiology and evolutionary psychology open up on human affairs is one that is likely to shake and enhance the entire worldview of the person who discovers it. For the last 30 years of his life, he placed a number of bird houses in his garden and established a colony of European Starlings to study their sociobiology, especially polygyny. Like sociobiology, evolutionary psychology has attracted more than its fair share of critics. However, evolutionary psychology differs from sociobiology in a number of fundamental ways. Understanding how the activities of individual colony members give rise to these colony patterns is a key question in insect sociobiology. Behavioral ecology is a naturalistic perspective somewhat similar to sociobiology. The third reason is to encourage a focus on aspects of evolution sometimes obscured by controversial issues, such as sociobiology and evolutionary psychology. The initiation of foraging during the life course of honeybee workers is of central interest to understanding the division of labor in social insects, a central theme in sociobiology and behavioral research. Primitively eusocial wasps of the genus Polistes have played a pivotal role as ‘hypothesis generating model organisms’ in sociobiology and kin selection theories. He was a sharp critic of the application of sociobiology to human behavior that developed following the publication of E. O. Wilson's Sociobiology in the 1970's. The original edition of The Tangled Wing, published more than two decades ago, was one of the first - and surely one of the most exhaustive - books on human behavior to hit the shelves during the heyday of sociobiology. In the mid-1980s one group began to organise itself around a version of sociobiology that they named evolutionary psychology.
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