Preface Guidance for the Reader Chapter 1 Selection by Consequences: The Essential B.F. Skinner The Behavioral CenturySkinner's New ParadigmThe Vocabulary of Operant ConditioningReinforcers, Cues, and Operant ShapingDiscriminative StimuliBeyond a Technology of BehaviorSelection by ConsequencesChapter 2 Human Sociobiology: The Essential E.O. Wilson The HMS Beagle to the Modern SynthesisSociobiology and the New SynthesisHuman SociobiologyGene-Culture CoevolutionAdditional ConsiderationsConsilienceChapter 3 A Consilient View of B.F. Skinner and E.O. Wilson Radical BehaviorismAligning Skinner and Wilson Language and CultureUnits of CultureCulturgens and EpigenesisThe Operant Basis of SociobiologyChapter 4 A Conversation Between B.F. Skinner and E.O. Wilson Endnotes: 130Chapter 5 To What Beginning? Skinner's Technology of BehaviorA Consilient WorldviewChapter 6 Proceeding to D. Rumbaugh's Rational Behaviorism Skinner and WilsonEnlarging the ConversationMirror Neurons and ImitationDevelopmental Plasticity and EvolutionRational Behaviorism and Emergents Final Thoughts Glossary Bibliography
