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ArticleThe Behavioral and brain sciences2014

Let the social sciences evolve.

Paul E Smaldino, Timothy M Waring

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Article in The Behavioral and brain sciences, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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2 authors.

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

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6 · The paper itself

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 SciencesBehaviorismCultural EvolutionHumans

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