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Considering cooperation: Empiricism as a foundation for unifying the behavioral sciences

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 April 2007

John W. Pepper
Affiliation:
Department of Ecology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721-0088. Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721-0088. jpepper1@email.arizona.eduhttp://eebweb.arizona.edu/Faculty/Bios/pepper.html

Abstract

Economics and evolutionary biology share a long history of interaction and parallel development. This pattern persists with regard to how the two fields address the issues of selfishness and cooperation. The recent renewed emphasis on empiricism in both fields provides a solid foundation on which to build a truly scientific unification of the behavioral sciences.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
2007 Cambridge University Press

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