A sociobiologist on the Iceberg.

This paper is a critical reply to an article "Is Sociology Afraid of Biolog y?"by Peter Sykora, published in Sociologia. (Sociologia 1999, No. 3, pp. 3 75-396) Author presents three main lines of objections against Sykora's vie ws. Firstly, the author shows that most of Sykora's arguments are defective and non-conclusive ones. Secondly, although Sykora has presented the socio biological theoretical background in a sufficient way, he has failed in its application on anthropological problems. It is showed than this failure wa s the evident result of Sykora's insufficient knowledge in anthropological matters (folk-tales, a work of Bronislaw Malinowski and so on). The close a nalysis provides an evidence that Sykora commits a lot of factual errors, s uperficial remarks and weak arguments in dealing with anthropology. Finally , the author demonstrates that Sykora has omitted a very important paradigm which has much to do with his topics, namely theories of co-evolution. The conclusion to be drawn: Sykora's paper cannot serve as a point of departur e for fruitful and successful discussion between sociobiology and social sc iences. The main reason is the lack of the balance between Sykora's serious and justified knowledge in the domain of sociobiology and his quite insuff icient skills in anthropology and social sciences. With such a deficit, nob ody can deal with these problems seriously.