Major off the face of the earth, and it damn near does. The inclusion of the spider-tank is straight from the manga, and its inclusion in the film is only apparent to those familiar with the series. The history of the Tachikoma is completely dropped on the viewer in the end of the film, and it isn’t revealed why Section 9 even has them. It’s a bit of a “this is a future world, expect giant robotic arachnids, because duh” moment.

Kuze’s love for Major in their past life is apparent as he draws the attention of the Tachikoma, allowing Major to get the upper hand and destroy its tank, but not before the spider-tank nearly kills Kuze. As the two lie on the ground, injured but victorious, KuzeScott, Altmann and Wilson have in common to place naturalist studies at the core of the research on animal social behavior and by drawing alliances with emerging research methodologies, at a time when "biology in the field" was threatened to be made old-fashioned by "modern" practices of science (laboratory studies, mathematical biology, molecular biology).

Once a specialist term, "sociobiology" became widely known in 1975 when Wilson published his book Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, which sparked an intense controversy. Since then "sociobiology" has largely been equated with Wilson's vision. The book pioneered and popularized the attempt to explain the evolutionary mechanics behind social behaviors such as altruism, aggression, and nurturance, primarily in ants (Wilson's own research specialty) and other Hymenoptera, but also in other animals. However, the influence of evolution