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Editor’s Farewell Message It has been a great privilege to work with all the individuals who made the first 17 years of Ethology & Sociobiology possible. This includes those who reviewed arti- cles, co-editors, those responsible for the administration of the journal, and those who submitted manuscripts. The journal’s editorship is now in new hands, and a better set of hands may not exist.

Michael T. McGuire

From the New Editors of Evolution and Human Behavior Beginning with this issue, the journal has a new title and new co-editors. Ethology and Sociobiology was founded in 1980 by Michael McGuire, who has been its edi- tor-in-chief for all of its 17 years. Everyone who believes, as we do, that the human behavioral sciences are properly conceived as branches of biology in its broadest sense, and that they will surely profit if their practitioners pay serious attention to conceptual, methodological, and empirical advances in the rest of the life sciences, is in Mike’s debt. His vision and his labors (as well as those of his outstanding edito- rial assistant, Toby Ann Cronin) played a big role in nurturing the interdiscipinary field that the Human Behavior & Evolution Society (HBES) now represents. Nicholas Blurton Jones has served as an associate editor from the journal’s inception, and Bill McGrew, and then Peter K. Smith, served as European associate editor. They have earned our thanks, too, as has Randolph Nesse, who has tirelessly negotiated the process by which Evolution and Human Behavior became the official journal of HBES.

The journal’s original name paid homage to the biological subdisciplines or schools that were playing a dominant role in the growth of biological sophistication in the behavioral sciences. “Ethology” signified respect (which we share) for the hallmarks of a certain approach to behavioral science, an approach that emphasizes objective observation of the organism in natural as well as controlled environments, and that treats behavior and its underlying control mechanisms as evolved species- typical characters that may be investigated much as one would investigate more tan- gible anatomical and physiological characters. “Sociobiology” signified respect (which we share) for an adaptationist, selectionist, Darwinian/Hamiltonian concep- tual framework. Although the original title could be misconstrued as that of another animal behavior journal, Ethology and Sociobiology S statement of aims and scope

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stressed from the outset that the human species was its “primary focus.” Under the new editors, the journal will continue to welcome cross-species comparative analy- ses, but the new title, Evolution and Human Behavior, makes its unabashedly an- thropocentric focus more conspicuous, while better conveying (or so we hope) that its scope is not limited to any single methodological or theoretical approach. This is the official journal of HBES, whose membership voted overwhelmingly for such a change.

The editors invite the submission of primary reports of empirical research, of review papers that synthesize and interpret other scientists’ publications, and of pa- pers that present novel theorizing. More detailed instructions for manuscript prepa- ration and submission can be found on the inside back cover. Evolution and Human Behavior is and will remain primarily a scientific journal, but we will continue to welcome submissions from scholars in the humanities, too. The sponsoring society and the journal are truly interdisciplinary, and we hope and expect that they will be- come even more so. At present, anthropologists and psychologists comprise a ma- jority of the HBES membership, with psychiatrists the next largest disciplinary group, and with active contingents from philosophy and the arts. Evolutionary biol- ogists have been prominent in the society’s affairs, most notably as its founding president (William D. Hamilton) and as its current president (Richard D. Alex- ander). But there are still too few economists, epidemiologists, geographers, histori- ans, linguists, neuroscientists, political scientists, sociologists, and members of schools and departments of child development, communications, or family studies. Pioneers in all these fields and more have begun to persuade their colleagues of the utility, power, and elegance of evolutionary insights. We look forward to publishing good papers from scientists and scholars in a broad range of disciplines, including ones we have neglected to mention here.

Interest in the applicability of evolutionary ideas to the study of the human ani- mal is growing daily, both in prevalence and in sophistication. We are excited to have the opportunity, as editors of Evolution and Human Behavior, to contribute to these trends. With your help, we shall strive to be worthy of the trust implicit in HBES’s endorsement of our editorship.

Martin Daly Margo Wilson

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