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What does sociobiology mean?

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Noun
  1. The science that applies the principles of evolutionary biology to the study of social behaviour in both humans and animals
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Behavioral ecology is a naturalistic perspective somewhat similar to sociobiology.
But then I realise that without a basic grounding in sociobiology, I would likely think the very same.
However, evolutionary psychology differs from sociobiology in a number of fundamental ways.
Unlike sociobiology and evolutionary psychology, these efforts do not ground their analyses in genes.
In the mid-1980s one group began to organise itself around a version of sociobiology that they named evolutionary psychology.
Unlike so many popularizers of sociobiology, Bellah consistently avoids scientistic reductionism.

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