Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition
- ISBN-10
- 0674002350
- ISBN-13
- 9780674002357
- Series
- Sociobiology
- Category
- Psychology
- Pages
- 697
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000-03-24
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Author
- Edward O. Wilson
Description
When this classic work was first published in 1975, it created a new discipline and started a tumultuous round in the age-old nature versus nurture debate. The controversy surrounding the book's publication--and surrounding its central claim that human social behavior has a biological foundation--reverberates to this day. In the introduction to this twenty-fifth anniversary edition, Edward O. Wilson shows how research in human genetics and neuroscience over the past quarter of a century has strengthened the case for a biological understanding of human nature.
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