Harmon R. Holcomb III is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Kentucky, Lexington.

"Holcomb is now clearly the leading authority on sociobiology among philosophers of science. The book is non-polemical and non-ideological, thus making it far superior to Kitcher's earlier work, which it most resembles. Holcomb's aim is the promotion of science and new and better insights into the basis of science. He successfully uses human sociobiology as a research domain to investigate the nature of science, for which it is admirably suited. Sociobiology, Sex, and Science can and should be the standard reference on the subject." — Edward O. Wilson, Harvard University

• AcknowledgmentsPART I - The Quest for Explanatory CompletenessChapter 1 - Theories as the Unit of Analysis1.1 On Assessing an Emerging Science1.2 Explanatory Completeness1.3 Explaining Sexual Selection: Theory and Data1.4 Standards of Evidence and Human NatureChapter 2 - Research Programs as the Unit of Analysis2.1 The Unfalsifiability of Adaptationism2.2 Sexist Sexual Hypotheses2.3 Progress and Reductionism2.4 Gene-Culture Programs2.5 Empirical and Conceptual Problem SolvingPART II - Conceptual Frameworks as the Unit of AnalysisChapter 3 - Problem Conceptualization3.1 The Modern Synthesis and the New Synthesis3.2 The Altruism Problem3.3 The Units/Levels of Selection ProblemChapter 4 - Domain Conceptualization4.1 Expanding the Evolutionary Domain4.2 Morality as an Evolved Phenomenon4.3 Biological Determinism and Human NatureChapter 5 - Discipline Conceptualization5.1 Ideals of Evolutionary Explanation5.2 Evolutionary Change and the Life Cycle5.3 Evolved FunctionsChapter 6 - Performance Conceptualization6.1 Evaluative Perspectives6.2 Methodological Rules and Standards6.3 Evaluative Criteria and Units of AnalysisReferencesIndex

Harmon R. Holcomb III is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Kentucky, Lexington.

"Holcomb is now clearly the leading authority on sociobiology among philosophers of science. The book is non-polemical and non-ideological, thus making it far superior to Kitcher's earlier work, which it most resembles. Holcomb's aim is the promotion of science and new and better insights into the basis of science. He successfully uses human sociobiology as a research domain to investigate the nature of science, for which it is admirably suited. Sociobiology, Sex, and Science can and should be the standard reference on the subject." — Edward O. Wilson, Harvard University

• AcknowledgmentsPART I - The Quest for Explanatory CompletenessChapter 1 - Theories as the Unit of Analysis1.1 On Assessing an Emerging Science1.2 Explanatory Completeness1.3 Explaining Sexual Selection: Theory and Data1.4 Standards of Evidence and Human NatureChapter 2 - Research Programs as the Unit of Analysis2.1 The Unfalsifiability of Adaptationism2.2 Sexist Sexual Hypotheses2.3 Progress and Reductionism2.4 Gene-Culture Programs2.5 Empirical and Conceptual Problem SolvingPART II - Conceptual Frameworks as the Unit of AnalysisChapter 3 - Problem Conceptualization3.1 The Modern Synthesis and the New Synthesis3.2 The Altruism Problem3.3 The Units/Levels of Selection ProblemChapter 4 - Domain Conceptualization4.1 Expanding the Evolutionary Domain4.2 Morality as an Evolved Phenomenon4.3 Biological Determinism and Human NatureChapter 5 - Discipline Conceptualization5.1 Ideals of Evolutionary Explanation5.2 Evolutionary Change and the Life Cycle5.3 Evolved FunctionsChapter 6 - Performance Conceptualization6.1 Evaluative Perspectives6.2 Methodological Rules and Standards6.3 Evaluative Criteria and Units of AnalysisReferencesIndex