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According to the OED, John Paul Scott coined the word " sociobiology " at a 1946 conference on genetics and social behaviour, and became widely used after it was popularized by Edward O. Wilson in his 1975 book, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis.

However, the influence of evolution on behavior has been of interest to biologists and philosophers since soon after the discovery of evolution itself.

Peter Kropotkin's Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution, written in the early 1890s, is a popular example.

Antecedents of modern sociobiological thinking can be traced to the 1960s and the work of such biologists as Richard D. Alexander, Robert Trivers and William D. Hamilton.