New Evolutionary Social Science

For a long period of time, social scientists declared their autonomy from the life sciences, thereby neglecting important biological constraints on human nature. Many sociological theories suggest a nearly complete malleability of patterns of social life. Recently, however, Stephen K. Sanderson's 'œDarwinian conflict theory'� set out to synthesize sociological theories with key findings from biology into an overarching scientific paradigm. Configuring and expanding this groundbreaking theory, the contributors to this volume are well-known European and American experts in evolutionary science. They develop in this book new bases for understanding social change and the world's future through a better integration of the life sciences and social sciences