Sociobiology; The New Synthesis

Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1977. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Very Good in a Good jacket, unclipped ($25.00 sticker on the front panel), generally rubbed and soiled, a few short chips at the edges, moisture damage and associated rippling on the front panel. Orange cloth with red ink lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, a few stains at the edges, clean internally. Wilson's controversial and significant work that began the sociobiology debate by combining biology and evolutionary psychology. Here Wilson "examines sociobiological problems with the acknowledged awareness that ethical applications are an especially important consequence of researches in this field." The last line on the jacket proved to be prophetic: "This book will be indispensable to anyone seeking to understand the human situation in the light of modern scientific thought.