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Evolution and the social sciences
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When the social sciences parted company from evolutionary biology almost exactly a century ago, they did so at a time when evolutionary biology was still very much in its infancy and many key issues were unresolved. As a result, the social sciences took away with them an understanding of evolution that was in fact based on 18th- rather than 19th-century biology. I argue that contemporary evolutionary thinking has much more to offer the social sciences than most people have assumed. Contempora...
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- Journal:
- History of the Human Sciences
- Volume:
- 20
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 29-50
- Publication date:
- 2007-05-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1461-720X
- ISSN:
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0952-6951
- Source identifiers:
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287116
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- English
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- pubs:287116
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