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More obstacles on the road to unification

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 April 2007

Eric Alden Smith
Eric Alden Smith
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-3100. easmith@u.washington.eduhttp://faculty.washington.edu/easmith/
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Abstract

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The synthesis proposed by Gintis is valuable but insufficient. Greater consideration must be given to epistemological diversity within the behavioral sciences, to incorporating historical contingency and institutional constraints on decision-making, and to vigorously testing deductive models of human behavior in real-world contexts.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , February 2007, pp. 41
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2007 Cambridge University Press