SOCIOL 2Q06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Parental Investment, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences, Genital Stage
30 Sep 2016
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Perspectives: gender behaviour is ultimately a product of human biological nature (nelson, 2010:46: your gender behaviour is determined by your biology, its not the environment/social, it is inborn differences that lead to the ways masculine and feminine. O. wilson, sociobiology: the new synthesis 1975, harvard university press. Ants are social insects their social behaviour is explained on the basis of genetic interest, on the survival of their group. Karl marx was right, he just had it in the wrong species. Because of ants" biology, they lack reproductive independence. Ants are required to live in a social setting for their reproduction, unlike humans who are reproduc tively independent: systematic study of the biological basis of all forms of social behaviour (cited in. Nelson, 2010: 46: sociobiology"s argue that over the course of. While biology underlines human behaviour (for example the development of a brain and highly developed cerebral cortex)
