Evolutionary analyses of human behaviour: a commentary on Daly & Wilson
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In a recent Animal Behaviour review, Daly & Wilson (1999, hereafter D&W) present a stimulating, but in important ways misleading, account of the history and present state of evolutionary analyses of human behaviour. Concerned that those not familiar with this research will be misled by D&W’s account, we offer the following commentary. We wish to make three main points: (1) D&W’s account is heavily biased toward the theoretical and methodological preferences of one approach to the study of human behaviour and evolution, and underplays or misrepresents other approaches; (2) the approach D&W advocate, evolutionary psychology (EP), suffers from several methodological and conceptual limitations; (3) human behavioural ecology (HBE) provides a complementary approach that avoids these limitations.
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تاریخ انتشار 1999