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 …

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 …

Originally published in 1967. This reprints the second edition of 1973, revised and
expanded. Evolution and Human Behaviour considers man's biological and cultural …

The apparent contradictions between Dr. Carneiro's paper, in this symposium," The
Devolution of Evolution," and mine are due, in my opinion, to a difference in emphasis rather …

The relation of evolution and culture has been much debated. There have been many
different approaches, of which the most notable have been those of Cavalli-Sforza and …

Charles Darwin's most important work, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural
Selection, was published in 1859. In that volume, Darwin argued that all organisms are …

Nearly 40 years ago WD Hamilton (1) published his classic paper on the genetic evolution of
social behavior. His mathematical theory of kin selection and the related concept of inclusive …

The last two decades have witnessed a sustained renewal of interest in the application of
Darwinian evolutionary theory in the social sciences, most notably to the historical …

Just recently, in November 2006, the journal Behavioral and Brain Sciences published an
article by Alex Mesoudi, Andrew Whiten and Kevin Laland, all of the Centre for Social …

Most contemporary models of cultural change are derived from pre-Darwinian, especially
Spencerian, sources and are conditioned by such unstated assumptions as typological …