Sociobiology is the scientific study of the biological bases of social behavior among animals, including humans. The new field of evolutionary sociology is the product of recent efforts by sociologists to integrate sociobiological reasoning into their theoretical thinking and empirical research. Evolutionary sociologists reject the Standard Social Science Model of human nature and human social ...

‘[T]he entity called Europe was constructed from the outside in as much as from the inside out.’ So wrote Mary Louise Pratt, at the start of Imperial Eyes (1992: 6), her insightful account of colonial travelogue. Pratt’s point provides a pithy summary of one of the central claims of what was, at the time, the still emerging field of postcolonial studies (in which context, of course, Imperial Ey...