Book contents
- Much Like Us
- Much Like Us
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Typical Human, Typical Animal?
- Chapter 2 Ginger Boris Doesn’t Like to Be Alone
- Chapter 3 Cats Are Happy When They’re Playing
- Chapter 4 Nature Versus Nurture
- Chapter 5 Clever Dogs and Ingenious Ravens
- Chapter 6 Animal Personalities
- Chapter 7 Altruistic Squirrels and Egotistical Lions
- Chapter 8 Animals Like Us
- Bibliography
Chapter 7 - Altruistic Squirrels and Egotistical Lions
The Sociobiological Revolution
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 April 2022
- Much Like Us
- Much Like Us
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Typical Human, Typical Animal?
- Chapter 2 Ginger Boris Doesn’t Like to Be Alone
- Chapter 3 Cats Are Happy When They’re Playing
- Chapter 4 Nature Versus Nurture
- Chapter 5 Clever Dogs and Ingenious Ravens
- Chapter 6 Animal Personalities
- Chapter 7 Altruistic Squirrels and Egotistical Lions
- Chapter 8 Animals Like Us
- Bibliography
Summary
In 1975, the American biologist Edward O. Wilson published his foundational work, Sociobiology – The New Synthesis. In it, he coined the term ‘sociobiology’ as a new sub-discipline of behavioural biology based on the groundwork laid years earlier by scientists like William Hamilton and Robert Trivers.
Wilson saw the goal of sociobiology as deciphering the biological basis of all social behaviour of animals and humans alike. By systematically applying the theory of evolution to the social activities of insects, fish, birds, and mammals, sociobiology casts the ways in which animals form relationships, help one another, kill each other, and take on sex roles in a completely different light.
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- Much Like UsWhat Science Reveals about the Thoughts, Feelings, and Behaviour of Animals, pp. 119 - 141Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022