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"What you will find here is basically a summary statement of my approach to the teaching of the discipline of sociology, painstakingly pieced together over the past 25 years." (p.XIII)
"One of my models is E.O. Wilson in his On Human Nature. Wilson described that book in the following terms: “[A] speculative essay about the profound consequences that will follow as social theory at long last meets that part of the natural sciences most relevant to it” (Wilson 1978:x). As I also say in beginning the first chapter, Wilson regrettably proved too optimistic about the meeting he describes, which still has not taken place." (p.XIII)
-Alexander Riley, Toward a Biosocial Science. Evolutionary Theory, Human Nature, and Social Life, Routledge, 2021, 174 pages.
