Review article
The Contemporary Impacts of the Evolutionary Theory on Social Sciences
Josip Hrgović
; Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences
Abstract
The author explains basic epistemological assumptions of application of adaptationist programme in biology as well as social sciences. Adaptationist research programme was introduced in social sciences through several key papers written within the framework of evolution of behavior. These papers are discussed in this work. The author also describes the process of implementation of these theories into social sciences and the development of three main theoretical approaches, as well as the differences among them.
Keywords
adptationist programme; sociobiology; evolutionary psychology; human behavioral ecology; gene-cultural coevolutionary theory
Hrčak ID:
79961
URI
Publication date:
26.4.2012.
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