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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| What Is Sociobiology? | |
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| Defining the Discipline | |
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| Refining the Definition | |
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| Sociobiology before Wilson | |
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| So What's All the Fuss About? | |
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| What Sociobiologists Study | |
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| What Is the Purpose of Behavior? | |
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| On Anthropomorphism | |
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| Not All Evolutionary Biologists Are the Same | |
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| Evolved Traits Need Not Help Preserve Species | |
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| How to Identify Darwinian Puzzles Worth Solving | |
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| Sociobiology and Genes | |
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| The Myth of the Genetic Determinist | |
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| The Gene-Behavior Connection | |
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| "No Genes Have Been Found 'for' Social Behaviors" | |
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| Sociobiology and Science | |
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| What Scientists Do | |
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| Opposing the Adaptationist Program | |
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| The Art of Name-Calling | |
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| How to Test Sociobiological Hypotheses | |
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| Critics' Corner: The "Flawed Comparison" Argument | |
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| Science and Reality | |
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| Cultural Relativism and Airplanes | |
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| Science and Politics | |
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| What Have Sociobiologists Discovered? | |
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| The Value of Counting Genes | |
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| Gene Counting and Biased Altruism | |
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| Gene Counting and Sexual Behavior | |
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| Genetic Conflicts between the Sexes | |
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| Parents and Offspring | |
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| The Sociobiology of the Seychelles Warbler | |
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| The Problem with Cultural Determinism | |
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| A Distaste for Biology | |
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| The Shortcomings of Blank Slate Theory | |
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| Blank Slates and Beauty | |
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| Blank Slates and Genocide | |
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| Sociobiology and Human Culture | |
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| Natural Selection and the Evolution of Behavioral Flexibility | |
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| Targeted Flexibility of Behavior in an Insect | |
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| The Evolution of Learning | |
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| Adaptive Design in the Song Learning of Songbirds | |
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| The Adaptive Design of Human Learning Mechanisms | |
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| Selection and Remembering Faces | |
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| Learning, Cultural Change, and Genetic Success | |
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| Sociobiology and Apparently Maladaptive Behavior | |
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| The Demographic Transition | |
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| The Practical Applications of Sociobiology | |
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| A Danger to Society? | |
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| "Natural" Does Not Mean "Moral" | |
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| Know Thyself? | |
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| Cooperation and Conflict in Human Families and Stepfamilies | |
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| The Practical Applications of Socibiology | |
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| Men and Women | |
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| The Triumph of Sociobiology | |
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| Outlasting the Critics | |
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| The Cost of the Continuing Controversy | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Citations | |
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| Selected References | |
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| Illustration Credits | |
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| Index | |