This is the re-release of the complete original version of Sociobiology: The New Synthesis. 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. Althouh voted by officers and fellows of the international Animal Behavior Society the most important book on animal behavior of all time Sociobiology is probably more widely known as the object of bitter attacks by social scientists and other scholars who opposed its clain that human social behavior, indeed human nature, has a biological foundation. Includes an Index.

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