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Sociobiological (Genetic) versus Economic (Functionalist) Models of Social Evolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2016

Peter A. Corning
Peter A. Corning*
Affiliation:
Department of Engineering–Economic Systems, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305
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With the support of a grant from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, research is currently underway on a major effort to rethink the basic theoretical issue that inspired the emergence of sociobiology. That issue, in a nutshell, concerns the explanation for the origins and evolution of social life (human societies being only one example among many others).

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Research in Progress
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Politics and the Life Sciences , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , July 1982 , pp. 59 - 60
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Copyright © Association for Politics and the Life Sciences 

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