ABSTRACT
There is no shortage of theories and theoretical perspectives in the social sciences today. They run the gamut from phenomenology and deconstructionism to sociobiology and from functionalism to critical theory In addition, as Marvin Harris (1979) once observed, many social scientists are content to be eclectic, patching together bits and pieces of various theories. Given the surfeit of options, one may well ask whether we really need yet another theory and whether ecological-evolutionary theory can possibly add anything of significance to what is already available.
