{"id":95362,"date":"2016-05-09T11:02:29","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T19:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=95362"},"modified":"2016-05-09T11:02:29","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T19:02:29","slug":"the-lack-of-acceptance-of-evolutionary-approaches-to-human-behaviour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=95362","title":{"rendered":"The lack of acceptance of evolutionary approaches to human behaviour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASP scientists are the most likely to use evolutionary perspectives.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/2128889\/The_lack_of_acceptance_of_evolutionary_approaches_to_human_behaviour\">Two professors in England write<\/a>: 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\u2019 focus on cultural determinants of behaviour have generally been seen as incompatible with any proposition of biological influences&#8230; leading many social scientists to continue to disregard evolutionary perspectives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=95362\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12745],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95363,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95362\/revisions\/95363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}