ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that biology has moved close enough to the social sciences to become their antidiscipline. It describes precedents from the history of biology, then turn to some developments within the individual social sciences that suggest a growing susceptibility to biological explanation. The chapter aims to define the obviously strong limitations of biological reductionism. Members of the antidiscipline are likely to be monistic with reference to the discipline and dualistic with reference to their own subject. Progress over a large part of biology was fueled by competition among the various attitudes and themata derived from biology and chemistry— the discipline and its antidiscipline. In an environment ruled by competitive research, profit can be extracted only from the discipline and antidiscipline. The central question of biological anthropology is the nature and strength of the coupling between cultural and biological evolution. Classic economic theory restricted itself to the goods and services that can be measured by money and market pricing.
