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An Evolutionary Perspective on Human Social Behavior

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Sociophysiology

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Like so many of the individuals whose behavior it purports to explain, psychology has an ambivalent, if not neurotic, relationship to its parents. This is particularly true for its most legitimate mother discipline, biology, where the ambivalence can take advantage of a tendency toward a split personality in the discipline itself. Just at about the time Wilhelm Wundt set the stage for psychology by marrying philosophy and physiology, the seed to the split was planted in Charles Darwin’s theory of the evolution of species.

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