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Shaker, Paul – 1982
This paper argues that the emerging discipline of sociobiology has the potential of doing what epistemologists, developmental psychologists, psychoanalysts, and ethologists have been unable to do: to provide a theory documenting our inherited dispositions as reflected in cultural evolution and personal development. Accordingly, the paper begins…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Biological Influences, Cultural Influences, Developmental Psychology