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| Sociobiology: sociobiology investigates the biological basis for behavior in humans and animals. The term was coined by E. O. Wilson (E.O. Wilson, Sociobiology The New Synthesis, 1975). The sociobiological approach was criticized in the following years for the fact that it defined differences in gender and origin as too strong and decisive. It thus laid the foundation for determinism. See also explanation, behavior, freedom of will, evolution, Darwinism._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Terrence W. Deacon on Sociobiology - Dictionary of Arguments
I 114 Sociobiology/Meme/Deacon: Recently, researchers have treated the social evolution of artifacts, techniques, customs and even ideas as if they were independent organisms competing with each other. That is more than a metaphor. One can observe how these artifacts develop parallel to their living hosts - not only as epiphenomena. >Artifacts, >Evolution, >Culture. I 115 They have to reproduce themselves from generation to generation. Cf. >Memes. Language/Deacon: is also a social phenomenon. It cannot be understood exclusively in formal, psychological or neurobiological terms. Otherwise, their reason for existence would be disregarded. >Language, >Language/Deacon, >Language development._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Dea I T. W. Deacon The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of language and the Brain New York 1998 Dea II Terrence W. Deacon Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter New York 2013 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-28