Sociobiology examined / [electronic resource] edited by Ashley Montagu.

Includes bibliographies.

Rival fatalisms: the hollowness of the sociobiology debate / Mary Midgley -- Sociobiology versus biosociology / Karl Peter and Nicholas Petryszak -- The genetics of sociobiology / James C. King -- Gene-juggling / Mary Midgley -- Biological determinism and the Tasmanian native hen / S.A. Barnett -- "It's only human nature": the sociobiologist's fairyland / Steven Rose -- Sociobiology: Is this the new theory of human nature? / Jerome H. Barkow -- Sociobiology: the "antidiscipline" of anthropology / Derek Freeman -- On the evolution of intelligence and social behavior / David Layzer -- Human behavior and the behavior of other animals / S.L. Washburn -- Sociobiology and human nature: a postpanglossian vision / Stephen Jay Gould -- Biology, sociobiology, and the understanding of human social behavior / Michael A. Simon -- Sociobiology and biological reductionism / Marvin Harris -- A proffering of underpinnings / N.J. Mackintosh -- Paris: Moses and polytheism / Thomas Sheehan.