Harmon R. Holcomb - Sociobiology, sex, and science
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Published by State University of New York Press, Albany
1993 State University of New York
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Holcomb, Harmon R., 1954 Sociobiology, sex, and science / Harmon R. Holcomb III. p. cm. (SUNY series in philosophy and biology) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7914-1259-8 (ch.) ISBN 0-7914-1260-1 (pb) 1. Sociobiology. 2. Human evolution. 3. Social evolution. 4. Sex. I. Title. II. Series. GN365.9.H65 1993 304.5dc2091-41478 CIP 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
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To my Mother and Father For all their love and support In cultivating the life of the mind
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
ix
PART I The Quest for Explanatory Completeness
Chapter 1 Theories as the Unit of Analysis
1.1 On Assessing an Emerging Science
3
1.2 Explanatory Completeness
14
1.3 Explaining Sexual Selection: Theory and Data
36
1.4 Standards of Evidence and Human Nature
52
Chapter 2 Research Programs as the Unit of Analysis
2.1 The Unfalsifiability of Adaptationism
83
2.2 Sexist Sexual Hypotheses
98
2.3 Progress and Reductionism
111
2.4 Gene-Culture Programs
132
2.5 Empirical and Conceptual Problem Solving
148
PART II Conceptual Frameworks as the Unit of Analysis
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