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Evolutionary social science beyond culture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2006

Harold Kincaid
Harold Kincaid*
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL35294-1260http://www.uab.edu/philosophy/kincaid
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Abstract:

Mesoudi et al.'s case can be improved by expanding to compelling selectionist explanations elsewhere in the social sciences and by seeing that natural selection is an instance of general selectionist process. Obstacles include the common use of extreme idealizations and optimality evidence, the copresence of nonselectionist social processes, and the fact that selectionist explanations often presuppose other kinds of social explanations.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 29 , Issue 4 , August 2006 , pp. 356
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2006

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Notes

1. The comments that follow are based on Kincaid (1996, Ch. 4; 2006)