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721Evolutionary Perspectives on Human AggressionHuman Nature 23 (1): 1-4. 2012.The papers in this volume present varying approaches to human aggression, each from an evolutionary perspective. The evolutionary studies of aggression collected here all pursue aspects of patterns of response to environmental circumstances and consider explicitly how those circumstances shape the costs and benefits of behaving aggressively. All the authors understand various aspects of aggression as evolved adaptations but none believe that this implies we are doomed to continued violence, but …Read more
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35A review of David Hull, science and selection: Essays on biological evolution and the philosophy of science (review)Biology and Philosophy 17 (5): 739-742. 2002.
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22Confronting Variation in the Social and Behavioral SciencesPhilosophy of Science 83 (5): 909-920. 2016.I pose problems for the views that human nature should be the object of study in the social and behavioral sciences and that a concept of human nature is needed to guide research in these sciences. I proceed by outlining three research programs in the social sciences, each of which confronts aspects of human variation. Next, I present Elizabeth Cashdan and Grant Ramsey’s related characterizations of human nature. I go on to argue that the research methodologies they each draw on are more product…Read more
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