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But as representatives of that enterprise, they risk further damaging its reputation--and exposing themselves as defenders not of truth but of sociobiological dogma--by declaring that Tierney's book has been ''systematically refuted.''

From Scientific American • Sep. 29, 2019

“It will be another sociobiological thriller based on certain patterns of evolutionary human behavior,” she said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 2018

For all of his close analyses of geopolitics, Revel offers a kind of sociobiological conclusion: people may prate of doing good for man kind but deep down they crave power.

From Time Magazine Archive

"When and if the sociobiological perspective becomes understood," says Galvin, "I feel that future generations will use it as matter-of-fact-ly as my generation has used the ideas of Sigmund Freud."

From Time Magazine Archive

With man a social animal, sociobiological and social psychological causes apply in general.

From Definition & Reality in the General Theory of Political Economy by Colignatus, Thomas