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What the human annals tell us

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 1999

Gwen J. Broude
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY 12604-0152 broude@vassar.edu

Abstract

Evidence reveals numerous cross-cultural universals regarding human mental processes and behavior. Similarly, cross-cultural data are consistent with predictions from theories of kin selection, reciprocal altruism, and sexual selection inspired by Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. Thus, the “annals of human behaviour” do provide “example[s] fitting the sociobiological bill,” (Lifelines, p. 202) thereby, supporting sociobiological accounts of human behavior.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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