Week 5-Assigned Reading- Sociobiology

One the most well known philosophers came up with this idea ofsociobiology and his name is Edward Wilson. Sociobiology deals withthe success of reproduction in any type of species and this has todo with natural selection. Sociobiology has yet to really capturethe study of things that are not human, we tend to still not reallyunderstand them to there fullest. The reason for this is because insociobiology you have to take the culture and mind into account withand animal it is rather hard to do this. A second criticism concernsgenetic determinism, the view that many social behaviors aregenetically fixed. A lot has to do with they believe that there is astatus quo, so that is why this doesn't work for that.From that sociobiology is seen as evolutionary science in thebehavior of humans and how we change our thoughts over time.Evoulution not only has to do with the change of a humans genes overtime but it also has to do with how a human thinks of time or thepsychological side or culture changes of humans. What we end upseeing that is one of the biggest factors in sociobiology is socialstatus or wealth.This subject I think is so cool I like the section where it takesabout the selfishness about human nature. Because as humans we tendto be greedy or never satisfied with what we have. So research ortrying to understand why things happen with the way that they happenis really cool. Another thing is cool when it takes about cheating.When you get help but do not give anything in return. We all do thisand this is linked to humans being greedy.Edward Wilson has great thoughts, maybe the best theories thatrelate to things that are happening today and will be there in thefuture.