sociobiology and altruistic behavior

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SOCIOBIOLOGY

AND ALTRUISTIC

BEHAVIOR

Chapter 13

Animal behavior and evolution

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Sociobiology: A Proposed Answer to Altruism

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Behavioral Strategies

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Implications for Human Behavior

Sociobiology: An Alternative to Religion

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Is Sociobiology Real?

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An Interventionist View of Sociobiology

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Sidebar 13.1. Interpretations of sociobiology

Data:

Non-human animal behavior sometimes fits the predictions of sociobiology.

Human behavior is often selfish (not altruistic).

Interpretation:

Conventional science: The naturalistic worldview requires that seeming altruistic

behavior must have a non-altruistic explanation.

Evolution has not allowed true altruism to evolve.

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Interventionism: Organisms as created may have (and probably did) exhibited truly

altruistic behavior.

Humans as created are expected to have had truly altruistic behavior.

In a sinful world detrimental mutations and/or epigenetic alterations and bad choices

after sin have reduced or eliminated much altruistic behavior in humans and

non-human animals.