On the Use of Mental Terms in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

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Behavior and Philosophy 23:31 - 37 (1995)
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Sociobiologists' use of mental and anthropomorphic terms such as manipulation is best understood as species-level descriptive, rather than individual- or gene-level explanatory.

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