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In general, critics of Sociobiology have been preoccupied with various genetic models and have devoted proportionately less energy towards a critical examination of the ecological premises of the Sociobiological argument. One reason for this is that Sociobiologists themselves have been preoccupied with the genetic components of their research programme. Stephen Emlen [1980], however, has addresed what he takes to be the second major research frontier in Sociobiology: to explain why one form of society exists under one set of ecological conditions, and another form of society under yet another set.
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Smith, J.W. (1984). Causal-explanatory reductionism IV: Ecological Sociobiology and cultural materialism. In: Reductionism and Cultural Being. Nijhoff International Philosophy Series, vol 14. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6095-4_7
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