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The behavioral sciences are historical sciences of emergent complexity
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 April 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.
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