出版社:Department of Anthropology, University of Durham
摘要:Historically, the main impediments to co-operative research between biological and social anthropologists have been: (a) the debate over genetic versus cultural determination of behaviour, and (b) the emphasis on the individual as the unit of selection, versus the emphasis on the emergent properties of social systems. Point (a) has largely been resolved through recognition that genetic potentialities are moulded by culture. This paper shall concentrate on some of the ways in which point (b) can be overcome to develop the idea of anthropology as a discipline