
That Complex Whole: Culture and the Evolution of Human Behavior deals with such key issues as how culture is best defined, how it influences human behavior, and the limited but important role of cultural relativism, pointing the way toward a scientific study of human behavior...

When evolutionary biology stretched out a tentacle called sociobiology and began to probe human behavior back in the 1970s, there was no room for neutrality. Advocates of the new science hailed the dawn of a new era in our understanding of human behavior, while opponents wrung...

That Complex Whole: Culture and the Evolution of Human Behavior deals with such key issues as how culture is best defined, how it influences human behavior, and the limited but important role of cultural relativism, pointing the way toward a scientific study of human behavior...