WASP scientists are the most likely to use evolutionary perspectives.
Two professors in England write: Wilson, Trivers and others believed sociobiology could make a particularly useful contribution to the social sciences by providing a model of the underlying evolutionary influences on humans, to integrate with social scientists and anthro- pologists culturally-based conception of behaviour, but it ended up being almost to-tally rejected (LALAND and BROWN 2002). The term sociobiology is not much used now, the fields which relate biological factors to human behaviour being mainly de-scribed as behavioural ecology and evolutionary psychology and cultural evolution or gene-culture co-evolution. The history and central concepts of social science disciplines, negative perceptions of sociobiology, a religious reluctance to view humans as animals, lack of biological education and the socio-cultural background of individuals have been suggested as general reasons behind this resistance to an evo-lutionary perspective (ELLIS 1996; LIEBERMAN 1989). Social sciences’ focus on cultural determinants of behaviour have generally been seen as incompatible with any proposition of biological influences… leading many social scientists to continue to disregard evolutionary perspectives.
