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Towards uniting the behavioral sciences with a gene-centered approach to altruism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 April 2007

R. Michael Brown  and
Stephanie L. Brown
R. Michael Brown
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA 98447; [email protected]
Stephanie L. Brown
Affiliation:
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109. [email protected]
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Abstract

We support the ambitious goal of unification within the behavioral sciences. We suggest that Darwinian evolution by means of natural selection can provide the integrative glue for this purpose, and we review our own work on selective investment theory (SIT), which is an example of how other-regarding preferences can be accommodated by a gene-centered account of evolution.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , February 2007 , pp. 19 - 20
Copyright
2007 Cambridge University Press

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