The Triumph of Sociobiology

By J. Alcock. 2001

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Social Conventions in Wild White‐faced Capuchin Monkeys (2003, background): “Of course, some traits have no function and are merely by-products of other traits, and traits may acquire secondary functions, but the refusal even to test hypotheses about adaptive functions will set the field back rather than advancing understanding (Alcock 2001).”
The burden of proof for a cultural group selection account (2014, background): “, Alcock 1998; Krebs & Davies 1993), and it is now the background assumption of virtually all research in animal behavior (Alcock 2001).”
Evolving the Psychological Mechanisms for Cooperation (2005, background): “…has been fruitful; indeed, the crowning glory of the sociobiological revolution beginning in the 1960s has been the overwhelming empirical support for its theoretical predictions targeted at adaptive accounts of social behavior (Alcock 2001, Hamilton 1964, Trivers 2002, Williams 1966, Wilson 1975).”
“Economic man” in cross-cultural perspective: Behavioral experiments in 15 small-scale societies (2005, background): “For instance, numerous evolution-based studies of animals, including Homo sapiens, support the broad assumption that organisms evolve mechanisms that maximize the success of kin (Alcock 2001; Lahamet al. 2005; Smith et al. 1987).”