ABSTRACT
Anthropology is indeed uniquely positioned among the social sciences to integrate biological constants and cultural variables and propound on this basis unified theories of human behavior. Significantly, the idea that human nature could be practically ignored was far from being limited to the cultural relativistic persuasion and its numerous schools of thought. Human society's deep configuration is not to be confused with any specific human society; it is an abstract entity. The chapter describes the universal biological predispositions generating human society's deep organization. The present model accords with the view that there exist evolved psychological mechanisms dealing with particular problems. Human nature would produce a specific set of social bonds for the same reason that "chimpanzee nature" generates a chimpanzee-specific set of social bonds. In the present model, dyadic social bonds are the single most important intermediary step in the causal chain linking psychosocial proclivities to complex social pattern.
