Abstract

To apply evolutionary biology and sociobiology to politics, behaviors such as origins and functions of altruism, nepotism, coercion, and warfare must be looked at in new ways. This involves truly demanding interdisciplinary study and reevaluation of age-old premises usually taken for granted in the social sciences. Goldstein fails to rise to this challenge. His commentary is astonishingly naive and unscholarly. Kitcher offers well reasoned points but the major thrust of his argument collapses because he misinterprets the use of inclusive fitness as employed in our model.

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