ABSTRACT
One reason that the philosophy of biology became the focus of much interest, and even controversy, over the last quarter of the twentieth century is the bearing biology has increasingly been thought to have on the social and behavioral sciences. Not just biological and cultural anthropology, but sociology, psychology, even economics and politics, have felt the influence especially of Darwinism. This incursion of biology and the attraction of biologically inspired research programs in the social sciences can be dated from the publication of E.O. Wilson’s Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (1975).
