sociobiology
so·cio·bio·logy
noun
1.
the branch of biology that conducts comparative studies of the social organization of animals (including human beings) with regard to its evolutionary history
Origin
From socio- + biology, popularized by E. O. Wilson's Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (1975).
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