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Indeed, [[E. O. Wilson]]'s book ''Sociobiology: The New Synthesis'' appeared in 1975, and since that time the study of behaviour has been much more concerned with social aspects. It has also been driven by the stronger, but more sophisticated, Darwinism associated with Wilson and [[Richard Dawkins]]. The related development of behavioural [[ecology]] has also helped transform ethology. Furthermore, a substantial rapprochement with comparative [[psychology]] has occurred, so the modern scientific study of behaviour offers a more or less seamless [[spectrum]] of approaches – from animal [[cognition]] to more traditional comparative psychology, ethology, sociobiology and behavioural ecology. Sociobiology has more recently developed into evolutionary psychology.
Indeed, [[E. O. Wilson]]'s book ''Sociobiology: The New Synthesis'' appeared in 1975, and since that time the study of behaviour has been much more concerned with social aspects. It has also been driven by the stronger, but more sophisticated, Darwinism associated with Wilson and [[Richard Dawkins]]. The related development of behavioural [[ecology]] has also helped transform ethology. Furthermore, a substantial rapprochement with comparative [[psychology]] has occurred, so the modern scientific study of behaviour offers a more or less seamless [[spectrum]] of approaches – from animal [[cognition]] to more traditional comparative psychology, ethology, sociobiology and behavioural ecology. Sociobiology has more recently developed into evolutionary psychology.
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In the [[mind]]'s eye conjure up a picture of one of your primitive ancestors of cave-dwelling times--a short, misshapen, filthy, snarling hulk of a man standing, legs spread, club upraised, breathing hate and animosity as he looks fiercely just ahead. Such a picture hardly depicts the [[divinity|divine dignity of man]]. But allow us to enlarge the picture. In front of this animated [[human]] crouches a saber-toothed tiger. Behind him, a woman and two children. Immediately you recognize that such a picture stands for the beginnings of much that is fine and noble in the human [[race]], but the man is the same in both pictures. Only in the second sketch you are favored with a widened horizon. You therein discern the motivation of this evolving mortal. His attitude becomes praiseworthy because you understand him. If you could only fathom the motives of your associates, how much better you would understand them. If you could only know your fellows, you would eventually fall in [[love]] with them.[http://urantia.org/cgi-bin/webglimpse/mfs/usr/local/www/data/papers?link=http://mercy.urantia.org/papers/paper100.html&file=/usr/local/www/data/papers/paper100.html&line=85#mfs]
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