At least since the time of Darwin, there has been a tradition of borrowing between
evolutionary theory and the social sciences. Darwin himself owed a debt to the Scottish …

The past two decades have seen a resurgence in Darwinian evolutionary theory that has
revolutionized our understanding of social behaviour. Previously, it was difficult to apply a …

Save for Anthropologists, few social scientists have been among the participants in the
discussions about the appropriate structure of a 'Universal Darwinism'. Yet evolutionary …

One of the few theories in the history of ideas which has been held in common by both the
social and natural sciences as well as philosophy is that of evolution. As a scientific …

Is social or cultural evolution Lamarckian in some sense? A positive answer to this question
may appear to threaten the consistency of the biological with the social sciences …

The idea that cultural evolution exhibits variation, competition, and inheritance and therefore
can be studied by adjusting the Darwinian theory of evolution by natural selection is an …

While most anthropologists are not naturalistic in their approach and are not even trying to
be, the project of a natural science of society and culture has always haunted the field …

This paper challenges the widely held view that the social sciences are theoretically
impoverished disciplines which have failed to develop anything comparable to the …

By introducing the concept of the natural selection of individual organisms, Darwin was able
to cut through the mystification surrounding theological discussions of the origin of species …

Charles Darwin's" On the Origins of Species" had two principal goals: to show that species
had not been separately created and to show that natural selection had been the main force …