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Let the social sciences evolve

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 August 2014

Paul E. Smaldino  and
Timothy M. Waring
Paul E. Smaldino
Affiliation:
Center for Advanced Modeling in the Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21209 psmaldi1@jhmi.edu http://www.smaldino.com
Timothy M. Waring
Affiliation:
School of Economics & Sustainability Solutions Initiative, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469. timothy.waring@maine.edu http://timwaring.wordpress.com/
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Abstract

We agree that evolutionary perspectives may help us organize many divergent realms of the science of human behavior. Nevertheless, an imperative to unite all social science under an evolutionary framework risks turning off researchers who have their own theoretical perspectives that can be informed by evolutionary theory without being exclusively defined by it. We propose a few considerations for scholars interested in joining the evolutionary and social sciences.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 37 , Issue 4 , August 2014 , pp. 437
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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