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Evolutionary psychology, ecological rationality, and the unification of the behavioral sciences

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 April 2007

John Tooby  and
Leda Cosmides
John Tooby
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Center for Evolutionary Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3210l; tooby@anth.ucsb.edu
Leda Cosmides
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Center for Evolutionary Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106. cosmides@psych.ucsb.eduhttp://www.psych.ucsb.edu/research/cep/
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Abstract

For two decades, the integrated causal model of evolutionary psychology (EP) has constituted an interdisciplinary nucleus around which a single unified theoretical and empirical behavioral science has been crystallizing – while progressively resolving problems (such as defective logical and statistical reasoning) that bedevil Gintis's beliefs, preferences, and constraints (BPC) framework. Although both frameworks are similar, EP is empirically better supported, theoretically richer, and offers deeper unification.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , February 2007 , pp. 42 - 43
Copyright
2007 Cambridge University Press

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