title: Let the social sciences evolve.
abstract: We agree that evolutionary perspectives may help us organize many divergent realms of the science of human behavior. Nevertheless, an imperative to unite all social science under an evolutionary framework risks turning off researchers who have their own theoretical perspectives that can be informed by evolutionary theory without being exclusively defined by it. We propose a few considerations for scholars interested in joining the evolutionary and social sciences.
authors.affiliation: Center for Advanced Modeling in the Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21209psmaldi1@jhmi.edu http://www.smaldino.com.
authors.forename: Paul E
authors.initials: PE
authors.lastname: Smaldino
authors.affiliation: School of Economics & Sustainability Solutions Initiative, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469. timothy.waring@maine.edu http://timwaring.wordpress.com/
authors.forename: Timothy M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Waring
mesh_terms: D001525:Behavioral Sciences; D001527:Behaviorism; D003468:Cultural Evolution; D006801:Humans