Sociobiology, as laid out by E.O. Wilson, is always a controversial discussion topic, and I really don't understand why it's so emotionally charged. Sure, I get that people don't care to have their personal, emotional exepriences somehow made less by attributing them to evolutionary biology, but I don't think that having a way to explain emotions and social interactions makes their experience any less. It's like telling a teenager that all their angst is just due to hormones. In a way, it's comforting that one can attribute restlessness to chemical interactions in the body and know that one isn't crazy. To be perfectly honest, I think it's rather pompus of humans to shy away from sociabiology, yet feel no hesitation in applying similar concepts to other, "lesser" species. We should either give the animals more credit, or condescend to accept the fact that we may be governed by the same evolutionary behavioral laws that we claim the animals abide by.
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