Alcock, a professor of biology at Arizona State University, defends E. O. Wilson`s controversial brand of sociobiology as a valuable and scientifically sound discipline. In this text, published 25 years after Wilson`s SOCIOBIOLOGY inaugurated the orthodoxly Darwinist ideas behind the science, seeks to explain humankind as part of the natural order of being, replying to scientific objections and addressing misconceptions about what sociobiology is and how it interprets the natural world.
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