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An Evidence-Based Study of the Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 63 (1):177-226 (2012)
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The disagreement between philosophers about the scientific worth of the evolutionary behavioral sciences (evolutionary psychology, human behavioral ecology, etc.) is in part due to the fact that critics and advocates of these sciences characterize them very differently. In this article, by analyzing quantitatively the citations made in the articles published in Evolution & Human Behavior between January 2000 and December 2002, we provide some evidence that undermines the characterization of the evolutionary behavioral sciences put forward by their criticsAuthor's Profile
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