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The behavioral sciences are historical sciences of emergent complexity
Behavioral and Brain Sciences 30 (1):18-19 (2007)
Abstract
Unlike physics and chemistry, the behavioral sciences are historical sciences that explain the fuzzy complexity of social life through historical narratives. Unifying the behavioral sciences through evolutionary game theory would require a nested hierarchy of three kinds of historical narratives: natural history, cultural history, and biographical history. (Published Online April 27 2007).Author's Profile
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10.1017/s0140525x0700060x
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