Charles Elworthy (scientist)

Charles Elworthy (* 1961) is a New Zealand Economic and social scientists.

Scientific activity

Elworthy is a professor at the University of Szczecin ( Poland) and professor at the Otto -Suhr -Institute for Political Science at the Free University of Berlin.

Priorities of Elworthys academic activities are the European integration and the study of the evolutionary basis of human behavior.

In his published in Berlin in 1993 dissertation Elworthy designed the model of Homo biologicus that attempts to explain the basis of its phylogenetic and ontogenetic evolution of the nature of man. Homo biologicus is by roll analogy, while in partial contradiction to the widespread in economics model of utility-maximizing homo economicus. The theory sees himself in the tradition of writers such as Edward O. Wilson and Richard Dawkins that are controversial in parts of the social sciences and are often criticized as biologistically.

Others

Elworthy is the director of the Association European Academy and lives together with his colleague Hans -Joachim Mengel Wartin the castle of the same name Uckermark village. With the Foundation Collegium Wartinum he is committed to the preservation of this mansion and for its use as a cultural, artistic and scientific center in the Uckermark.

Publications (excerpt)

• Homo Biologicus: An Evolutionary Model for the Human Sciences. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-428-07749-0 (dissertation)
• Evolutionary Psychology. The Appropriate Disciplinary link in between Evolutionary Theory and the Social Sciences. In: MG Johan Van Der Dennen, David Smillie & Daniel R. Wilson ( ed.): The Darwinian Heritage and Sociobiology. Praeger, Westport, 1999, ISBN 0-275-96436-1