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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.