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What do evolutionary science and contextual behavioral science have
in common? Edited by David Sloan Wilson and Steven C. Hayes, this
groundbreaking book offers a glimpse into the histories of these
two schools of thought, and provides a sound rationale for their
reintegration. Evolutionary science (ES) provides a unifying
theoretical framework for the biological sciences, and is
increasingly being applied to the human-related sciences.
Meanwhile, contextual behavioral science (CBS) seeks to understand
the history and function of human behavior in the context of
everyday life where behaviors occur, and to influence behavior in a
practical sense. This volume seeks to integrate these two bodies of
knowledge that have developed largely independently. In Evolution
and Contextual Behavioral Science, two renowned experts in their
fields argue why ES and CBS are intrinsically linked, as well as
why their reintegration-or, reunification-is essential. The main
purpose of this book is to continue to move CBS under the umbrella
of ES, and to help evolutionary scientists understand how working
alongside contextual behavioral scientists can foster both the
development of ES principles and their application to practical
situations. Rather than the sequential relationship that is
typically imagined between these two schools of thought, this
volume envisions a parallel relationship between ES and CBS, where
science can best influence positive change in the real world.
An exploration of how approaches that draw on evolutionary theory
and complexity science can advance our understanding of economics.
Two widely heralded yet contested approaches to economics have
emerged in recent years: one emphasizes evolutionary theory in
terms of individuals and institutions; the other views economies as
complex adaptive systems. In this book, leading scholars examine
these two bodies of theory, exploring their possible impact on
economics. Relevant concepts from evolutionary theory drawn on by
the contributors include the distinction between proximate and
ultimate causation, multilevel selection, cultural change as an
evolutionary process, and human psychology as a product of
gene-culture coevolution. Applicable ideas from complexity theory
include self-organization, fractals, chaos theory, sensitive
dependence, basins of attraction, and path dependence. The
contributors discuss a synthesis of complexity and evolutionary
approaches and the challenges that emerge. Focusing on evolutionary
behavioral economics, and the evolution of institutions, they offer
practical applications and point to avenues for future research.
Contributors Robert Axtell, Jenna Bednar, Eric D. Beinhocker,
Adrian V. Bell, Terence C. Burnham, Julia Chelen, David Colander,
Iain D. Couzin, Thomas E. Currie, Joshua M. Epstein, Daniel Fricke,
Herbert Gintis, Paul W. Glimcher, John Gowdy, Thorsten Hens,
Michael E. Hochberg, Alan Kirman, Robert Kurzban, Leonhard Lades,
Stephen E. G. Lea, John E. Mayfield, Mariana Mazzucato, Kevin
McCabe, John F. Padgett, Scott E. Page, Karthik Panchanathan, Peter
J. Richerson, Peter Schuster, Georg Schwesinger, Rajiv Sethi,
Enrico Spolaore, Sven Steinmo, Miriam Teschl, Peter Turchin, Jeroen
C. J. M. van den Bergh, Sander E. van der Leeuw, Romain Wacziarg,
John J. Wallis, David S. Wilson, Ulrich Witt
Prominent evolutionary biologists and philosophers of science
survey recent work that expands the core theoretical framework
underlying the biological sciences. In the six decades since the
publication of Julian Huxley's Evolution: The Modern Synthesis, the
spectacular empirical advances in the biological sciences have been
accompanied by equally significant developments within the core
theoretical framework of the discipline. As a result, evolutionary
theory today includes concepts and even entire new fields that were
not part of the foundational structure of the Modern Synthesis. In
this volume, sixteen leading evolutionary biologists and
philosophers of science survey the conceptual changes that have
emerged since Huxley's landmark publication, not only in such
traditional domains of evolutionary biology as quantitative
genetics and paleontology but also in such new fields of research
as genomics and EvoDevo. Most of the contributors to Evolution, the
Extended Synthesis accept many of the tenets of the classical
framework but want to relax some of its assumptions and introduce
significant conceptual augmentations of the basic Modern Synthesis
structure-just as the architects of the Modern Synthesis themselves
expanded and modulated previous versions of Darwinism. This
continuing revision of a theoretical edifice the foundations of
which were laid in the middle of the nineteenth century-the
reexamination of old ideas, proposals of new ones, and the
synthesis of the most suitable-shows us how science works, and how
scientists have painstakingly built a solid set of explanations for
what Darwin called the "grandeur" of life. Contributors John
Beatty, Werner Callebaut, Jeremy Draghi, Chrisantha Fernando,
Sergey Gavrilets, John C. Gerhart, Eva Jablonka, David Jablonski,
Marc W. Kirschner, Marion J. Lamb, Alan C. Love, Gerd B. Muller,
Stuart A. Newman, John Odling-Smee, Massimo Pigliucci, Michael
Purugganan, Eoers Szathmary, Gunter P. Wagner, David Sloan Wilson,
Gregory A. Wray
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