Which covered E.O Wilson's career and life. He coined the term sociobiology in the book 'Sociobiology: The New Synthesis' in the 70s which caused a huge controversy. Many critics draw an intellectual link between sociobiology and biological determinism, referring to the social Darwinism and eugenics movements of the early 20th century, and to more recent ideas such as the IQ test controversy of the early 1970s. Steven Pinker argues that critics have been overly swayed by politics and a "fear" of biological determinism. However, all these critics have claimed that sociobiology fails on scientific grounds, independent of their political critiques.
However that being said there is some scientific grounds for parts of the theory.
The NOVA link to the program :
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/eowilson/program.htmlthis program is worth watching for natural science fans
Sociobiology: The New Synthesis ;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociobiology:_The_New_SynthesisSociobiology:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SociobiologyEdward Osborne Wilson (born June 10, 1929) is an American biologist, researcher (sociobiology, biodiversity), theorist (consilience, biophilia), naturalist (conservationism) and author. His biological specialty is myrmecology, a branch of entomology.
A two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction, Wilson is known for his career as a scientist, his advocacy for environmentalism, and his secular-humanist ideas pertaining to religious and ethical matters.<1>
As of 2007, he is Pellegrino University Research Professor in Entomology for the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University and a Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. He is a Humanist Laureate of the International Academy of Humanism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._O._Wilson