[Sociobiology and psychobiology: in the pantheon of science or in the basement of failures?]. / Sociobiologia e "psicobiologia": nel Pantheon della scienza o nella soffitta dei fallimenti?

The term sociobiology, coined by Wilson to describe the concept that human behaviour has a biological basis rooted in the genes, has aroused considerable controversy. The present report not only Wilson's hypothesis but takes it even further by putting forward the hypothesis that every human personality trait and resultant behavioural pattern is brought about by certain protein molecules, coded by the genes which activate special closed brain neuron circuits. The term "psychobiology" is suggested for this hypothesis, and "molecular personality code" for the whole complex of molecules mentioned above.