Question

1) Is socialbiology inherently flawed?

2) Renaissance means rebirth. What was reborn during the renaissance?

Answer 1

1)Sociobiology is a field of biology that aims to examine and explain social behavior in terms of evolution.It draws from disciplines including psychology,ethology,anthropology,evolution,zoology,archaeology and population genetics.sociobiology investigates social behaviors such as mating pattern,territorial fights,pack hunting,and the hive society of social insects.This discipline seek to explain behavior as a product of natural selection.For eg, a newly dominant male lions often kill cubs in the pride that they did not sire.This behavior is adaptive because killing the cubs eliminate competition for their own offspring and causes the nursing females to come into hear faster,thus allowing more of his genes to enter into population.A related aspect of sociobiology deals with altruistic behaviors in general.Critics charged that this application of sociobiology was a form of genetic determinism and that it failed to take into account the complexity of human behavior and the impact of the environment on human development.

b) The renaissance was the period in Europe between the 14th and 17th centuries when there was a surge of interest in and production of art and literature.Renaissance is a french word meaning"rebirth".The period is called by this name because at that time,people started taking an interest in the learning of ancient times, in particular,the learning of ancient Greece and Rome.Renaissance was seen as a rebirth of that learning.