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libertarianism: Sociobiology and Libertarian thought
I wasn't there, but during my graduate class the topic was brought up and discussed, because apparently Professor Block made some comments (relating to sociobiology) that were offensive to some people, and so the economics department ...

Thought Experiments : The Blog: On sociobiology
Sociobiology is the awkward antechamber where geneticists, anthropologists and artists get cross while trying not to bump into each other on the way to their respective lecture-rooms. Nick Cohen writes succinctly and well about it here. ...

Thoughts About K4D: Complexity Theory May Inform Socio Biology
Complexity Theory May Inform Socio Biology. Image: RYAN SNOOK via Science. Science magazine (7 November 2008) has a news article on the genetic factors that influence human behavior. It notes that the warrior MAOA variant of the gene ...

Darwinian Conservatism by Larry Arnhart: Economics and the ...
Economics and the Sociobiology of the Social Sciences. Last week, the Wall Street Journal published an article by Vernon Smith on Bush's financial bailout plan. At one point, he wrote: "During a bubble buyers are everywhere. ...

Zombies and Sociobiology : gordsellar.com
A sociobiological perspective can suggest how human psychology as a product of evolution interacts with a literary trope like the zombie — how such literary tropes both express the faultlines in the various systems of human cognition ...

YahBut...: Sociobiology and Altruism
Sociobiology is the application of evolutionary theory to social behavior (Holcomb). “Sociobiologists claim that many social behaviors have been shaped by natural selection for reproductive success, and they attempt to reconstruct the ...

Nature on sociobiology and god
Take the sociobiology wars of the 1970s and 1980s. Left-wing scholars rejected biological explanations for phenomena such as gender roles, religion, homosexuality and xenophobia, largely because they feared such explanations would be ...

H-Net Reviews
Second, his criticism of sociobiologists makes one feel as though they are the straw men in the relationship. An apologist for sociobiology's founding father E. O. Wilson points out that "sociobiology does not in any way provide an ...

Post Doc position in Evolutionary Sociobiology and Epidemiology ...
Applications are currently being solicited for a post-doctoral research associate in the area of mathematical modeling of evolutionary sociobiology and/or epidemiology at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. ...

Ionian Enchantment: Quote: Richards on the controversy about ...
The resistance to sociobiology when it first appeared was fuelled mainly by the conviction of its opponents that any claim about genetically ingrained characteristics must be the first premise of an argument for concentration camps, ...