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The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 4.16 — 192,922 ratings — published 1976
On Human Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,623 ratings — published 1978
Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,795 ratings — published 1975
The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are - The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 4.08 — 11,985 ratings — published 1994
Defenders of the Truth: The Sociobiology Debate (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 4.01 — 77 ratings — published 2000
The Social Conquest of Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,322 ratings — published 2012
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 3.98 — 4,990 ratings — published 1998
The Woman That Never Evolved (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 4.09 — 243 ratings — published 1981
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 4.09 — 28,646 ratings — published 1991
The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social Mobility (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 3.95 — 505 ratings — published 2004
Consuming Instinct: What Juicy Burgers, Ferraris, Pornography, and Gift Giving Reveal About Human Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 3.70 — 747 ratings — published 2011
The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,511 ratings — published 1994
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 4.38 — 31,898 ratings — published 2017
Race, Evolution, and Behavior: A Life History Perspective (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 4.10 — 269 ratings — published 1994
Genes, Mind, and Culture: The Coevolutionary Process (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 4.14 — 22 ratings — published 1981
Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,408 ratings — published 2005
Science Wars: Politics, Gender, and Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 4.00 — 10 ratings — published 2013
Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular Mind
by (shelved 2 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 3.95 — 868 ratings — published 2010
Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,041 ratings — published 2013
How the Mind Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 3.99 — 21,071 ratings — published 1997
Hierarchy in the Forest: The Evolution of Egalitarian Behavior (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 4.02 — 198 ratings — published 1999
The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World—And Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,848 ratings — published 2017
A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 3.75 — 5,920 ratings — published 2021
When Men Behave Badly: The Hidden Roots of Sexual Deception, Harassment, and Assault (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,021 ratings — published 2021
The Expanding Circle: Ethics and Sociobiology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 4.03 — 620 ratings — published 1981
Moral Origins: The Evolution of Virtue, Altruism, and Shame (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 3.65 — 291 ratings — published 2012
Genetics and education (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 3.92 — 13 ratings — published 1972
The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,054 ratings — published 2019
Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 4.04 — 875 ratings — published 2020
Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,660 ratings — published 2019
The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,206 ratings — published 1997
The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,634 ratings — published 2013
The Evolution of Cooperation (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,344 ratings — published 1984
Becoming Human: A Theory of Ontogeny (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 4.07 — 269 ratings — published 2018
A Pocket History of Human Evolution: How We Became Sapiens (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 3.93 — 790 ratings — published 2018
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 4.16 — 29,612 ratings — published 2010
Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 4.05 — 969 ratings — published 1996
ADAPTED MIND: EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 4.19 — 261 ratings — published 1992
Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,367 ratings — published 2009
The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,766 ratings — published 2000
Mismeasure of Woman: Why Women Are Not the Better Sex, the Inferior Sex, or the Opposite Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 4.07 — 430 ratings — published 1992
The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 3.64 — 1,055 ratings — published 2011
On Aggression (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,689 ratings — published 1963
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 4.05 — 17,321 ratings — published 1993
Nature Via Nurture: Genes, Experience and What Makes Us Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,248 ratings — published 2003
The Company of Strangers: A Natural History of Economic Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 3.67 — 303 ratings — published 2004
Why Is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality (Science Masters)
by (shelved 2 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 3.71 — 7,299 ratings — published 1997
The Naked Ape (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 3.93 — 12,109 ratings — published 1967
Music, Language, and the Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 4.15 — 772 ratings — published 2007
The Mismeasure of Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 4.06 — 9,315 ratings — published 1982
“The great leap was one from adaptation to, to control over the natural environment.”
― Man in society: A biosocial view
― Man in society: A biosocial view
“Wikipedia: Amity-enmity complex
The amity-enmity complex theory was introduced by Sir Arthur Keith in his work, A New Theory of Human Evolution (1948). He posited that humans evolved as differing races, tribes, and cultures, exhibiting patriotism, morality, leadership and nationalism. Those who belong are part of the in-group, and tolerated; all others are classed as out-group, and subject to hostility…”
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The amity-enmity complex theory was introduced by Sir Arthur Keith in his work, A New Theory of Human Evolution (1948). He posited that humans evolved as differing races, tribes, and cultures, exhibiting patriotism, morality, leadership and nationalism. Those who belong are part of the in-group, and tolerated; all others are classed as out-group, and subject to hostility…”
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