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

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 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 …

Contemporary biologists, for the most part, are fairly sure that they know what they mean
by'evolution', and are convinced that it has occurred. In social science, however, the …

Social theory embraced early in its history primitive evolutionism, and the indiscriminate
application of this theory in social Darwinism has brought this analogy to biological models …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Social scientists can learn a lot from evolutionary biology-from systematics and principles of
evolutionary ecology to theories of social interaction including competition, conflict and …

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