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Darwin's minds. (Charles Darwin) (evolution of the human behavior, part 1) (Cover Story)

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From: Science News
Date: 19911012
Author:Bower, Bruce

Many social scientists take a dim view of evolutionary theories of human behavior. The evolutionary approach, they argue, makes all sorts of unsupported assumptions about our ancient ancestors and comes dangerously close to scientific surrender to mind-controlling genes. Our actions are shaped by family, social and economic forces, not by biological imperatives handed down over the millennia, an army of skeptics contends.

In the past decade, however, a small but increasingly visible group of researchers has challenged the social science status quo. These investigators, ...

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