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SOCIOBIOLOGY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sociobiology mean?
• SOCIOBIOLOGY (noun)
The noun SOCIOBIOLOGY has 1 sense:
1. the branch of biology that conducts comparative studies of the social organization of animals (including human beings) with regard to its evolutionary history
Familiarity information: SOCIOBIOLOGY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The branch of biology that conducts comparative studies of the social organization of animals (including human beings) with regard to its evolutionary history
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("sociobiology" is a kind of...):
biological science; biology (the science that studies living organisms)
Derivation:
sociobiologic; sociobiological (of or relating to sociobiology)
sociobiologist (a biologist who studies the biological determinants of social behavior)
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