{"product_id":"sociobiology-by-edward-o-wilson-9780674002357","title":"Sociobiology","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eView a collection of videos on Professor Wilson entitled \"On the Relation of Science and the Humanities\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHarvard University Press is proud to announce the re-release of the complete original version of \u003ci\u003eSociobiology: The New Synthesis\u003c\/i\u003e—now available in paperback for the first time. 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. Although voted by officers and fellows of the international Animal Behavior Society as the most important book on animal behaviour of all time, \u003ci\u003eSociobiology\u003c\/i\u003e is probably more widely known as the object of bitter attacks by social scientists and other scholars who opposed its claim that human social behaviour, indeed human nature, has a biological foundation. The controversy surrounding the publication of the book reverberates to the present day.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the introduction to this Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition, Edward O. Wilson shows how research in human genetics and neuroscience has strengthened the case for a biological understanding of human nature. Human sociobiology, now often called evolutionary psychology, has in the last quarter of a century emerged as its own field of study, drawing on theory and data from both biology and the social sciences.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor its still fresh and beautifully illustrated descriptions of animal societies, and its importance as a crucial step forward in the understanding of human beings, this anniversary edition of \u003ci\u003eSociobiology: The New Synthesis\u003c\/i\u003e will be welcomed by a new generation of students and scholars in all branches of learning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48147801112812,"sku":"9780674002357","price":174.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780674002357-sociobiology.jpg?v=1786451837","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/sociobiology-by-edward-o-wilson-9780674002357","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}