ABSTRACT
The standard rationale for the social sciences being separate disciplines from biology rests on the assertion that human social behavior is uniquely complex. Anthropologists and sociologists often argue that human institutions managing the reproductive, productive, and symbolic features of human social life bear only remote connections to the phenomena of evolutionary biology. Proponents of more interdisciplinary views assert that at the very least, biology underpins sociocultural systems. Human behavior is implemented by human brains and bodies, to which evolutionary considerations add the fact that humans must have evolved from an ape-human common ancestor relatively recently.
