社会生物学在中国

Sociobiology in China

作为进化生物学的一个分支,社会生物学一问世就在西方学术界乃至社会引起激烈争论。而在我国,对它的反应则没有那么强烈。由于缺乏博物学传统,社会生物学遭遇了和它的先驱达尔文进化论类似的经历,其涉及的学术领域在我国的发展十分薄弱,因此对它关注较多的反而是哲学和社会科学界。社会生物学真正的学科意义被带有意识形态色彩的争论所掩盖,它进入中国并不是科学发展的自然结果,围绕它的争论更多的是当时社会历史背景在我国学术界和思想界的反映。

The reception and spread of sociobiology are rather less enthusiastic in China than fn America and other Western countries. E. O. Wilson has met a similar fate as his precursor Darwin. The fact that people advocate their theories is due to the need for social development rather than a spontaneous result of the development of science. Intellectuals hope to promote the process of social reforms by virtue of the power of science. Although most of them agree with the theories of sociobiology, its methods and theories can in no manner be combined with the practice of scientific research. Therefore, a number of admirers have become irrelevant. The criticisms that Wilson propounded here are much less than in America, but that does not mean that he is more popular in China. Sociobiology has fortunately escaped from being criticized by ideology and interrogated by science, but it has to suffer from the desolation of scientific practice. Up to now there are no universities or colleges that offer courses in sociobiology, nor are there any special issues and research groups. In biology textbooks used in the higher education system, few ideas relating to sociobiology are mentioned. In short, sociobiology as a discipline still remains on paper in China.