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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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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Sociology & anthropology Sociology

• Full title: Evolutionary Approaches in the Behavioral Sciences
• Subtitle: Toward a Better Understanding of Human Nature
• Author: S. A. Peterson, Steven A. Peterson, Albert Somit
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 320
• EAN: 9780762307692
• ISBN: 0762307692
• ID: 04687545
• Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Weight: 625 g
• Dimensions: 234 × 156 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 18. April 2001

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