In Light of Evolution VIII:  Darwinian Thinking in the Social Sciences, edited by UCI professors John Avise, Francisco Ayala and Brian Skyrms, has just appeared in a series of Digital Reprint Editions, a new undertaking by the National Academy of Sciences intended to make its work widely available for students and the broader scientific community. The book grew out of an NAS Arthur M. Sackler colloquium they organized at the Beckman Center last year.  Sackler was a physician and entrepeneur who prospered in the pharmaceutical business, and devoted his later life to widespread philanthropy; conferences in the series named for him address scientific topics that cut across the boundaries of traditional disciplines. The current volume includes contributions of scientists from biology, demography, economics, political science, psychology, anthropology, mathematics, and philosophy.

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