Human Sociobiology

Abstract

We come now to the area of major controversy: the application of the ideas sketched in the last chapter to our own species, Homo sapiens. In fairness to many of the sociobiologists (and to sociobiology in general) it is important to begin with a qualification: One can do animal sociobiology without taking any real interest in human sociobiology, or indeed whilst denying that sociobiology can be extended in any legitimate way to humans. Hence, whatever one’s convictions, one ought not rush in praise or condemn sociobiology as such on the strength of its relevance to humans.