comte is credited with coining the term sociobiology.
comte is credited with coining the term sociobiology.
who is credited with coining the term sociobiology?
comte
the geneticist of animal behavior john paul scott coined the word "sociobiology" at a 1948 conference on genetics and social behaviour which called for a conjoint development of field and laboratory studies in animal behavior research. with john paul scott's organizational efforts, a "section of animal behavior and sociobiology" of the esa (acronym stands for?) was created in 1956, which became a division of animal behavior of the american society of zoology in 1958. in 1956, e. o. wilson came in contact this emerging sociobiology through his phd student stuart a. altmann, who had been in close relation with the participants to the 1948 conference. altmann developed his own brand of sociobiology to study the social behavior of rhesus macaques, using statistics, and was hired as a "sociobiologist" at the yerkes regional primate research center in 1965.
sociobiology
edward h. hagen writes in "the handbook of evolutionary psychology" that sociobiology is, despite the public controversy regarding the applications to humans, "one of the scientific triumphs of the twentieth century." "sociobiology is now part of the core research and curriculum of virtually all biology departments, and it is a foundation of the work of almost all field biologists" sociobiological research on nonhuman organisms has increased dramatically and continuously in the world's top scientific journals such as "nature" and "science". the more general term behavioral ecology is commonly substituted for the term sociobiology in order to avoid the public controversy.
sociobiology