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Human and social sciences have reached a unifying framework

The human and social sciences have reached a point analogous to the scientific revolutions of physics, chemistry, and biology, where an overarching theoretical framework now unifies an otherwise chaotic understanding of human behavior—we know the rules by which humans differ from other animals, acquire and synthesize information, and by which societies change over time.

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Michael Muthukrishna

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we are in the midst of a revolution on the scale of Newton and Maxwell and Einstein, on the scale of the periodic table, on the scale of Darwin and the modern synthesis. That is, we know the rules.

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255 | Michael Muthukrishna on Developing a Theory of EveryoneSean Carroll's Mindscape
Created: 6/13/2026, 12:15:31 AM

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