Talk:Evolutionary study of social behaviour

Merge/redirect

Unless verifyable sources can be produced to show that this topic is truly distinct from Sociobiology, Evolutionary Psychology, and/or Human behavioral ecology it should be merged into one of those articles. However, I don't see any matierial in here that would add to any of those articles so I suggest simply redirecting this page to one of those, Evolutionary Psychology seems like the best choice. Pete.Hurd 16:13, 30 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I agree but would say that this page should redirect to sociobiology, rather than Evolutionary Psychology because, to quote this argument of Buller which distinguishes EP from SB: "examples -- such as singing Wagner, consciousness of mortality, and religious belief -- are of specific behaviors, mental acts, beliefs, attitudes, and preferences. Such phenomena are the outputs of psychological mechanisms, generated in response to the inputs of current experience and experiences during development. But Evolutionary Psychologists claim that our psychological adaptations are the mechanisms, or "major faculties of the mind," that generate such outputs, not the outputs generated by those mechanisms." David J. Buller http://host.uniroma3.it/progetti/kant/field/ep.htm What do you think? (ps. i misread what you said over on the EP talk page, so my reply doesnt make much sense, but now i realise what you meant!) Orgone 01:31, 15 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]