The process of natural selection can be viewed by people as either a progression toward a desired outcome or a process of adaptation that does not necessarily have a direction or purpose. This distinction in the understanding of natural selection has vast implications for how future inquiry would be conducted and the reasons for conducting inquiry in the first place. If the intent is to view natural selection as progression then it is my hope that we do not yet integrate the biological and social sciences. With the notion of progression comes the judgment of values placed on biological or social attributes which leads us down a terrible path of self destruction. On the other hand if we are able to see natural selection as a process of environmental (both social and physical) adaptation it will only behoove sociology to embrace the integration with biological behaviorism.
