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 

• SOCIOBIOLOGY (noun)

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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)