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Another example of the conflict, in a variety of mammals, is weaning. When the benefit to the child begins to be outweighed by the cost to the mother (reduced ability to bear or care for other offspring), the mother will deny milk, though the offspring will continue to demand more...
Wilson, 48, curator of entomology at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology, is currently writing a book on the evolution of ethics in relation to sociobiology. A specialist in the social insects, he wrote The Insect Societies (1971), then put in three years of 90-hour weeks working on his...
Anthropologist Sahlins in The Use and Abuse of Biology, the only anti-sociobiology book published to date, contends that kinship patterns among humans do not?as sociobiological theory predicts?always follow bloodlines. He also argues that Trivers' theory of reciprocal altruism simply does not work: an individual may help himself...
Why, in the vast majority of species, does the male aggressively pursue the female, instead of the other way round? According to Sociobiologist Robert Trivers, the sex that invests more is a "limiting resource." In other words, because women do most of the work to bring children into the world...
Sociobiologists think that evolution has produced different physiques, behavior and attitudes in males and females-a touchy subject for feminists. Trivers says the female is not equipped for the chase and shows no interest in it. And Edward Wilson reminds readers that in the million-year hunter-gatherer period of...