sociobiological
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8.9
- adjective
- /ˌsoʊsiobɪˈɑlədʒɪkəl/
- Specialized
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sociobiológico
- The research team explored various sociobiological theories to understand animal social structures.
- sociobiological theory
There are lots of popular books written that way, lots of when I teach undergraduates, they love those sociobiological notions because it's just a nice neat little system.
- There are lots of popular books written that way, lots of when I teach undergraduates, they love those sociobiological notions because it's just a nice neat little system.
Examples
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There might be a sociobiological component at work, but proving it in specific cases would be difficult.
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The sociobiological imagination inflames human eros much less than the historical, philosophical, or religious ones.
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Such was the proposition of early sociobiological theory.
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More problems are brought in with sociobiological concepts related to the pursuit of reproductive success.
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Gottschall has been working on the sociobiological logic of rape and woman theft in Homer.
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Nicholas Wade correctly states the core sociobiological conclusion: "Evolution shaped humans and human nature, yet it is a blind and pitiless process."
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Thoughtful defenders of the sociobiological or evolutionary view, such as Carl Sagan, agree with the existentialists that individual lives have no natural significance.
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Nor are we arguing for a return to a strict sociobiological interpretation, in which the vast majority of possible behaviors are believed to serve as adaptations (see Wilson, 1975).
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Second, Oliver and Hyde (1993) pointed out that neoanalytic, sociobiological, social learning, social role, and script theories all expect women to have more negative attitudes toward casual premarital sex than do men.
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Rolnick similarly concludes that "rather commonly, biologists have recently defined altruism solely in terms of sociobiological assumptions regarding reproductive value." (n70)
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Synonyms
Relating to the idea that animals' and people's social behavior comes from biology
Seeing people and society mainly as the result of their genes and bodies
How the body and society affect each other
How Biological
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925
3.8
340
3.5
- Specialized
1
8.9
∞
1.3
1
6.7
622
3.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
sociobiological = sociobiology (semi-transparent) = sociobiology + ical
Formed by adding the adjectival suffix '-ical' to the technical noun 'sociobiology'; the formation is regular but it relies on knowledge of a specialized field term.
Etymology
Sociobiological comes from socio- ('social') and bio- ('life'), like the familiar words social and biology, and so it links ideas about life to how people or animals live together. So, a sociobiological idea looks for the role of biology in social behaviour.