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sociobiology of leadership  

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  • Are leaders predetermined at birth? Do traits and charisma arise from genes and provide the foundation for leaders? These questions and others indicate a rudimentary understanding of sociobiology—the attempt to connect social behaviors to an underlying biology. The idea of sociobiology was founded in 1975 by Edward O. Wilson (b. [Source: Encyclopedia of Leadership; Sociobiology of Leadership]

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