sociobiology
- n the branch of biology that conducts comparative studies of the social organization of animals (including human beings) with regard to its evolutionary history
- SOCIOBIOLOGY: A New Theory of Behavior .
- COLLINS: There is a whole field of inquiry that has come up in the last 30 or 40 years--some call it sociobiology or evolutionary psychology--relating to where we get our moral .
- Hrdy believes that the answer lies in the theory of sociobiology, which holds that each organism is engaged in a one-against-all struggle to get as many of its genes as possible .