Evolutionary Approaches in the Behavioral Sciences

Toward a Better Understanding of Human Nature

By: Steven A. Peterson (Editor), Albert Somit (Editor)

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"Evolutionary Approaches in the Behavioral Sciences" examines perhaps the single most important post-World War II development in the Behavioral Sciences - the emergence of a group of practitioners who advocate 'a more biologically oriented' approach to their discipline's subject matter. This contention directly challenges the basic tenets underlying the long-dominant standard social science model. Advocates of this model believe that human behavior is not meaningfully influenced by our evolutionary background, but is instead learned. Consequently, the possibility that our behavior is genetically influenced is often ignored.The advocates of a 'more biologically oriented' approach are attempting, in effect, an intellectual revolution. Part I of this ground breaking volume examines, discipline by discipline, the history of the evolutionary thrust, leading figures and key literature, the degree of acceptance (or rejection) within each discipline, and the likely future prospects. Part II discusses the biobehavioral approach on a geographic basis, with experts assessing the status of evolutionary behavioral science across a number of countries and regions. The contributing authors are social scientists who have personally played an important role in the developments that they discuss.

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Foreword	p. vii
Anthropology and the Evolutionary Study of Human Behavior	p. 1
Economics is an Evolutionary Science	p. 31
History and Evolutionary Theory	p. 67
Evolution in International Relations? From Social Darwinism to Evolutionary Theory in the Study of International Relations	p. 91
The Evolution of Law and Biology	p. 119
Darwinism and Philosophy	p. 135
Evolutionary Theory and Political Thought	p. 161
Biopolitics in the Year 2000	p. 181
Is Psychology Undergoing a Paradigm Shift? Past, Present, and Future Roles of Evolutionary Theory	p. 203
Neo-Darwinian Theory, Psychiatry, and the Other Clinical Human Sciences	p. 217
Darwin and Sociology: Oil and Water	p. 235
"Biopolitics? Never Heard of it": A Report From Australia	p. 247
A Paradigm Ignored: Biopolitics and Political Science in Poland	p. 271
The Reception of Sociobiology in German Psychology and Anthropology	p. 277
Personal Observations on the Sociobiology Controversy (1975-2000)	p. 287
Postlude	p. 291
About the Contributors	p. 295
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