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Niche construction at the “workface” of the human behavioural sciences

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 September 2001

P. A. Russell
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, AB24 2UB Scotland{p.russell; d.carey}@abdn.ac.uk www.psyc.abdn.ac.uk/homedir/{prussel/prussel.htm; dcarey/dcarey.htm}
D. P. Carey
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, AB24 2UB Scotland{p.russell; d.carey}@abdn.ac.uk www.psyc.abdn.ac.uk/homedir/{prussel/prussel.htm; dcarey/dcarey.htm}

Abstract

Niche construction is a potentially important concept for the human behavioural sciences but we question how it differs from models of gene-culture coevolution and whether it can be developed in the detailed ways that will be necessary if it is going to make a significant contribution to the human behavioural sciences.

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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