Antedating of "Sociobiology"

[Fred Shapiro]

sociobiology (OED 1946)

1912 _Harvard Law Review_ 25: 503 (JSTOR)  "The heroic period of
socio-biology" in jurisprudence has passed.

[NOTE:  This is said to be a translation of Tourtoulon, Les principes
philosophiques de l'historie du droit, p. 82]

Fred Shapiro


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