sociobiology
pronunciation
How to pronounce sociobiology in British English:
UK [ˌsəʊsɪəʊbaɪ'ɒlədʒɪ]
How to pronounce sociobiology in American English:
US [ˌsoʊsɪoʊbaɪ'ɒlədʒɪ]
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- Noun:
- the branch of biology that conducts comparative studies of the social organization of animals (including human beings) with regard to its evolutionary history
Word Origin
- sociobiology (n.)
- "study of the biological basis of social behavior," 1946, from socio- + biology. Related: Sociobiological.
Example
- 1. The social science middle-ground , lately known as sociobiology , claims that we learn at least some specific cultural behaviors on the basis of biological need and evolution .
- 2. You needn 't share all the controversial positions of costa 's specialism , sociobiology , to see how we might be in the same boat today , only worse .
- 3. Sociobiology has been criticized as one of the most reductive of sciences , ascribing the behavior of all living things-humans included-as nothing more than an effort to get as many genes as possible into the next generation .
- 4. An offshoot of the biological approach called sociobiology suggests that aggression is natural and even desirable for people .
- 5. Her team , whose study is published in the journal behavioural ecology and sociobiology , believes the same-sex pairings could be a strategy for survival , the birds teaming up to defend resources and fight predators .