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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 | |