Question

According to the text, sociobiologists believe social behavior (e.g., fighting wars, protecting children, and building fences) occurs in order to

Answer 1

According to sociobiologists, social behaviour occurs in order to preserve one's genes in the population. Sociobiology is a branch of Biology which studies social behaviour in relation to evolution. They believe that social behaviour is affected by natural selection, by estimating that animals behave in certain ways that are evolutionary successful over generations.