I've been thinking about it and have come up with an explanation in sociobiological terms. From Wordnik.com. [TITFORTAT] Reference
Attempts to fill this vacuum prompted the idea of sociobiological underpinnings for the aesthetic appreciation of nature, such as “prospect-refuge theory”. From Wordnik.com. [Environmental Aesthetics] Reference
But then you get into strange sociobiological stuff. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-11-01] Reference
It looks scarier or visually presses more sociobiological buttons. From Wordnik.com. [Rad Geek People’s Daily – 2009 – April – 05] Reference
Only if going off the deep end of sociobiological fantasy is silly. From Wordnik.com. [Bringing Science into the Churches - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
It's not as if the left side of the aisle argues in sociobiological terms or something. From Wordnik.com. [Hillary's strange way of opposing the South Carolina flag.] Reference
Our ancestors never had to confront a sociobiological aberration as extreme as Humankind. From Wordnik.com. [The False Mirror]
Numerous articles in the popular media have used sociobiological theories to justify the status quo. From Wordnik.com. [The Politics of Sociobiology] Reference
NYTimes article today about yet another sociobiological argument for religious faith as an evolved trait. From Wordnik.com. [You've Got to Be Kidding « Lean Left] Reference
The range of emotions to which the sociobiological hypothesis can be applied, however, is relatively narrow. From Wordnik.com. [Emotion] Reference
Functional descriptions of most human behavior, then, are legitimate subjects of sociobiological explanations. From Wordnik.com. [Sociobiology] Reference
In sociobiological terms, indisputably, because they have no reproductive commitments by the fact of marriage. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » There’s Always Next Year] Reference
But the issue is not linguistic — but biological — and sociobiological and evolutionary to be more precise. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » There’s Always Next Year] Reference
He also obliquely referred to the possiblity that women seek higher-status males, also a sociobiological argument. From Wordnik.com. [Ada Lovelace Day - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
That kind of proto-sociobiological reasoning is unthinkable today, yet that hasn't brought about a feminist utopia. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-12-26] Reference
They are meant to show that sociobiological explanations are at least potentially fruitful for understanding ourselves. From Wordnik.com. [Sociobiology] Reference
That supports the sociobiological theory that our perception of beauty is an evolved indicator of reproductive potential. From Wordnik.com. [THE FEMININE IDEAL CIRCA 1928 » Sociological Images] Reference
We should keep this distinction in mind as we consider an example of sociobiological research using selfish gene metaphors. From Wordnik.com. [Sociobiology] Reference
The traditional sociobiological interpretation is that large breasts are desirable because they translate to well fed babies. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-08-01] Reference
I'm familiar with your anti-sociobiological writings, and have a good deal of sympathy for your overrall position, but: do. From Wordnik.com. [Rad Geek People’s Daily – 2008 – August – 25] Reference
Of course, the specific parameter values of sociobiological theories should be independently tested, insofar as that is possible. From Wordnik.com. [Sociobiology] Reference
The application of sociobiological reasoning to the study of human behavior has met with controversy wherever it has been introduced. From Wordnik.com. [The Politics of Sociobiology] Reference
Looks at a sociobiological theory of motivation, claiming humans possess four basic drives: to acquire, to bond, to learn, to defend. From Wordnik.com. [What’s in your Kindle?] Reference
Of course, showing that there can in principle be true sociobiological explanations does not at all show that any actual explanation is true. From Wordnik.com. [Sociobiology] Reference
The fundamentalism that Loehr and Digby posit at the heart of all fundamentalisms--that is, biological or sociobiological fundamentalism--isn't there, either. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-12-01] Reference
But it is government that takes this sociobiological need and exploits it. From Wordnik.com. [race42008.com] Reference
One was a sociobiological Machiavelli; the other, an angry, confused "humanist.". From Wordnik.com. [Wired Campus] Reference
Worse, he uses the sociobiological cliche, "all human innovation is a form of courtship display.". From Wordnik.com. [Ethical Technology] Reference
The reasons for this could be biological, psychoanalytical, sociobiological, or a combination of any of those. From Wordnik.com. [FOXNews.com] Reference
Their wives were paraded before us so that we could see how desirable the three candidates were in crude sociobiological terms. From Wordnik.com. [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
A bit OT, but the sociobiological theory for pre-eclampsia that I’ve read is really, really cool. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Surplus of Males and Runaway (with the Bride-Price) Brides:] Reference
I think the prospects for sociobiological explanations are more limited than most sociobiologists do, but they’re not zero. From Wordnik.com. [The Las Vegas A-Cafe and Radical Re-Orientation at UNLV] Reference
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