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Collaborating on evolving the future

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 August 2014

David Sloan Wilson ,
Steven C. Hayes ,
Anthony Biglan  and
Dennis D. Embry
David Sloan Wilson
Affiliation:
Departments of Biology and Anthropology, SUNY Binghamton, Binghamton, NY 13903 dwilson@binghamton.edu http://evolution.binghamton.edu/dswilson/
Steven C. Hayes
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557-0062 stevenchayes@gmail.com http://stevenchayes.com/
Anthony Biglan
Affiliation:
Oregon Research Institute, Eugene, OR 97403 tony@ori.org http://promiseneighborhoods.org/about/people/
Dennis D. Embry
Affiliation:
PAXIS Institute, Tucson, AZ 85751. dde@paxis.org http://www.paxis.org/content/DennisBio.aspx
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Abstract

We thank the commentators for an extraordinarily diverse and constructive set of comments. Nearly all applaud our goal of sketching a unified science of change, even while raising substantive points that we look forward to addressing in our reply, which we group into the following categories: (1) What counts as evolutionary; (2) Ethical considerations; (3) Complexity; (4) Symbotypes, culture, and the future; (5) What intentional cultural change might look like; (6) An evolving science of cultural change; and (7) Who decides?

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 37 , Issue 4 , August 2014 , pp. 438 - 460
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