Consilience
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https://doi.org/10.17184/eac.anthropen.072Keywords:
Bioculturalism, Hybridization, Human nature, Social science, EpistemologyAbstract
Consilience offers an epistemological framework common to all sciences that apply to Homo Sapiens: “natural,” “social” or “human.” Based on the challenge of the nature/culture dualism, it considers culture as a natural ability that our species possesses at an unprecedented level.
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