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Aug 1, 2014 · In this paper I first offer a systematic outline of a series of conceptual novelties in the life-sciences that have favoured, over the last three decades, the emergence of a more social view of biology.
- Maurizio Meloni
- 2014
Apr 4, 2001 · We define “biosocial” as a broad concept referencing the dynamic, bidirectional interactions between biological phenomena and social relationships and contexts, which constitute processes of human development over the life course.
- Kathleen Mullan Harris, Thomas W. McDade
- 10.7758/RSF.2018.4.4.01
- 2018
- 2018/04
- Sociobiology Theory
- Inclusive Fitness
- The “Problem of Altruism”
- Sexual Selection and Sexual Conflict
- “Selfish Genes” and Intragenomic Conflict
- References
Patterns of human social behavior can be explained by biological imperatives such as the drive to spread genetic inheritance as widely as possible. Sociobiology distinguishes itself from evolutionary psychology, which stresses mental mechanisms more than genes as the evolutionary determinant of adaptiveness. According to sociobiology, whole society...
One idea that had a significant impact on sociobiology’s early history was William Hamilton’s concept of inclusive fitness or kin selection (1964). Hamilton proposed that selection will favor any phenotype, or visible trait, that appears to be reflective of the organism’s own genes, regardless of whether these genes are in direct descendants or oth...
One central concern of Sociobiology is the so-called “problem of altruism.” Here, sociobiologists define altruism as actions whose average consequence is a reduction in the actor’s reproductive success and a direct increase in the reproductive success of someone else (Wright, 2015). Unlike the definition of altruism used in everyday language, this ...
Sociobiological questions around sexual selection revolve around topics such as why organisms reproduce with two parents rather than by themselves and how and why males and females differ in species where there are multiple distinct sexes. Darwin (1871) proposed, in his 1859 theory of evolution, that there is a direct evolutionary force called sexu...
Finally, the fact that selection can operate differentially on different components of the genome is an area of large amounts of contemporary research. For example, in species where the Y chromosome can only be transmitted from father to son, such as fruit flies and humans, mutations on the Y chromosome that bias progeny toward producing more repro...
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Social neuroscience is the interdisciplinary field devoted to the study of these neural, hormonal, cellular, and genetic mechanisms and, relatedly, to the study of the associations and influences between social and biological levels of organization.
- John T. Cacioppo, Gary G. Berntson, Jean Decety
- 2010
Nov 19, 2019 · Until late last century, empathy remained an abstract concept confined to the realms of social science and philosophy. Studies in neuroscience have demonstrated that the brain can understand and share emotions of others without having the same experiences.
- Michelle Trieu, Adriana E. Foster, Zimri S. Yaseen, Courtnie Beaubian, Raffaella Calati
- 2019
Mar 26, 2014 · In this paper I first offer a systematic outline of a series of conceptual novelties in the life‐sciences that have favoured, over the last three decades, the emergence of a more social view of biology.
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Jul 31, 2023 · This collection of papers explores the biological underpinnings of social behavior through a series of experiments, reviews, and perspectives. These papers include a wide range of species ranging from ants to monkeys and analyzes the biology of social behavior in relation to their epigenetic, ecological, evolutionary, and neuromolecular ...
