ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the majority of social scientists who continue to claim affiliation with the scientific community. The social sciences grew in the late nineteenth century out of the same intellectual movement that launched biology into its modern phase with Charles Darwin and Gregor Mendel. Unsavory associations of early evolutionary thinking in social science with social Darwinism, racism, imperialism, and laissez faire capitalism led to a revulsion against biology among social scientists. Biology has made enormous strides while the social sciences have remained largely stagnant. Some social scientists have given up the pretense of doing science and claim affiliation with the humanities. Many social scientists are afflicted with the mental malady of dichotomization. Modern scientific thinking is largely monistic in its conceptions of the universe. Sociobiology is peculiarly threatening not only to social scientists but also to the generality of thinking laypersons because it has an enormous potential for demystifying human behavior.
