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Biologism has several vanants and its compass is by no means clear. The concept of socIObIOlogy embraces generally all research on sociality that has a biological foundation as its point of departure. Human ethology represents In its conceptualization an attempt to find the essential knowledge relating to man and society through a study of ammal behaviour. Biopolitics is a study seeking to explain the problems of politology from a starting-point in human biology or indirectly related factors.These variants are not mutually exclusive. Sociobiology, the scrutiny of which is our main concern, puts the main stress on genetics, but nevertheless regards the knowledge obtained from research undertaken into the ammal world as having considerable significance. In addition it should be pointed out that all the diverse trends of biologism take society and culture into account in one way or another. The latter are regarded as constituting an important environment that has its effect on the evolution of mankind in the same way as the physical environment. In any case society and culture are held together in the same way as the physical environment. The matter might be put like this: although the many versions of biologism do pay attention to such concepts as society and culture, the latter are simply to be considered as the sum total of the characteristics and activities of the individuals who make them up. The group is indeed one of the most important concepts for

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