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Sociobiology vs Socioecology - Consequences of an Unraveling Debate
Sejin Park, Georges Guille-Escuret
Verlag Wiley-ISTE, 2017
ISBN 9781119427490 , 212 Seiten
Format PDF
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Cover
1
Half-Title Page
3
Title Page
5
Copyright
6
Contents
7
Introduction
11
1. From Altruism to Sociobiology: Historical and Epistemological Summary
17
1.1. Introduction
17
1.2. The “social Darwinism” of the 19th Century
18
1.3. Reconquest of the quest: 20th Century social neo-Darwinism
25
1.4. Expansion, disintegration signs and recent defections
34
1.5. Missing or extra squares on the chessboard
39
1.5.1. Wilson's initial epistemological traffic: sociobiology and behavioral ecology
40
1.5.2. Communicating evasiveness: behavior, altruism, society, culture
42
1.5.3. Cut-short dispute and perverted controversy
50
1.6. Temporary theory and permanent fantasy: will sociobiology soon be superseded?
54
2. The Illusory Endorsement of Insects: Omissions and Arbitrary Choices
57
2.1. Entomologic stronghold and the place of social insects
57
2.1.1. Natural advantages of social entomology
58
2.1.2. A rival society, accessible to experimentation
60
2.1.3. The extent of “societies” in insects
62
2.2. Organicism, superorganism and monospecific society
64
2.3. The beacon built by Wilson
66
2.3.1. Classification and social ranks
67
2.3.2. The enumeration of social births
70
2.4. Missing questions
72
2.5. Stigmergy versus haplodiploidy: a “choice of society”?
77
2.5.1. Stigmergy: from problematic to theory
78
2.5.2. Socioecological stigmergy versus sociobiological haplodiploidy
81
2.6. Subsequently emerged information
84
2.6.1. Thrips
85
2.6.2. Aphids
87
2.6.3. Termites, again
88
2.7. Polyethism, polyphenism and monomania
90
3. Gray Langur Society and Chimpanzee Culture
93
3.1. Gray langur society shrunk to infanticide
94
3.1.1. Practical and theoretical parameters of the “case”
95
3.1.2. Strategic obsession and fact selection
98
3.1.3. From scorned comparison to repressed anthropology
102
3.2. Culture and chimpanzees
107
3.2.1. Bric-a-brac and difference in degrees
107
3.2.2. Distinction criterion and the surprise from chimpanzees
111
3.3. Non-natural selection of comparisons
116
4. On the Specificity of Human Sociality
119
4.1. Logic of inbreeding avoidance in non-human primates
120
4.1.1. Facts
120
4.1.2. Westermarck effect: difficulties in the face of simian facts
123
4.1.3. Sexual avoidance as a social fact
126
4.2. Logic of the incest prohibition in humans
132
4.2.1. Kinship: a form of intersubjectivity specific to humans
133
4.2.2. Birth is a metaphor, and also incest
136
4.2.3. Incest prohibition as a struggle for recognition
141
4.3. Regarding sexual division of labor and food sharing
145
4.3.1. Sexual division of labor as struggle for recognition
146
4.3.2. Sharing and recognition
149
4.3.3. Failure of sociobiological explanations
151
4.4. Outline of a socioecological explanation
158
4.4.1. Forgotten issue: ownership
159
4.4.2. Ecological efficacy of the hunting-gathering regime
163
4.4.3. Evolutionary pertinence of the hunting-gathering regime
167
5. The Sociobiological Force of Inertia and Socioecology Challenges: Conclusion
173
5.1. The meltdown of the debate
174
5.1.1. The disastrous confusion between the modes of discussion
175
5.1.2. The failure of sociobiology, demonstrated by Wilson
177
5.2. The epistemological obstacle behind the force of inertia
178
5.2.1. Ariadne's thread against history
180
5.2.2. Beanbag against interdependence
182
5.2.3. “All other things being equal”
184
5.2.4. Diagnosis on the force of inertia of sociobiology
185
5.3. Interaction, ecology and social sciences
187
5.4. Mutual respect, a condition of interdisciplinarity
190
5.5. Conclusion
192
Bibliography
195
Index
211
Other titles from iSTE in Science, Society and New Technologies
213
EULA
215
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