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Even so, it troubled me that people continue to evaluate sociobiology without using the resources in the legacy of philosophy of scientific method and that people continue to hold general ideas about scientific method that fail to do justice to the research situations of sciences like sociobiology. This book is an attempt to remedy the situation, arguing that we need to expand our image of science in order to evaluate sociobiology adequately. I thank the University Page x of Kentucky for enabling me to teach courses that dovetail with my research and for a leave during the 1989 fall semester to work on this book.
Behavior is learned, but learning has been subject to genetic evolution; the brain has evolved specific information-processing capabilities to handle environmental, experiential, or cultural data pertinent to specific adaptive problems. 2). If we put these two themes together, we arrive at the projected New Synthesis of both natural and social causes and effects. The Page 20 phenomena to be explained are observed patterns of connections between variations in social behavior and variations in reproductive success.
Such variations often yield different aptitudes for reproductive success (fitnesses). These variations Page 5 are often inherited. In ideal conditions, the type of organism with the most fit variations will increase in the population from one generation to the next. In brief, heritable variation in fitness results in evolution by natural selection. Selection acting on variation within a population in each generation results in change in the population from one generation to the next. The evolutionary record of adaptations to local environments and to other organisms is explained as the cumulative result of selection.