Towards uniting the behavioral sciences with a gene-centered approach to altruism

R. Michael Brown; Stephanie L. Brown

doi:10.1017/S0140525X07000623

Towards uniting the behavioral sciences with a gene-centered approach to altruism

R. Michael Brown
, Stephanie L. Brown

Psychiatry

Pacific Lutheran University

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Abstract

We support the ambitious goal of unification within the behavioral sciences. We suggest that Darwinian evolution by means of natural selection can provide the integrative glue for this purpose, and we review our own work on selective investment theory (SIT), which is an example of how other-regarding preferences can be accommodated by a gene-centered account of evolution.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	19-20
Number of pages	2
Journal	Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Volume	30
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X07000623
State	Published - Feb 2007

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