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I was very excited for this week because my major is in the social science department. I think in the sciences you find that their arguments are based on things that happen in nature like the diversity of gender and sexuality. In my limited experience with the sciences, they focus on the interactions of things such as genes and chemicals to explain why things happen, whereas social sciences focus on people and their interactions with each other in their experiments/ research. While reading Evolution's Rainbow, I found myself wondering "well where do people come in?". Roughgarden argued that diversity of gender and sexuality naturally, but as a sociology major I've gotten used to being skeptical of the idea of things happening in nature. I feel that while the social sciences recognizes the validity of the sciences discourse and research based on things, it foregrounds how the the human experience informs those naturally occurring things. I don't think it's a question of one better answering our questions because it is the interactions of the two or more disciplines that creates for a richer and comprehensive response.  For example, the social sciences use science techniques to create a more objective look at society in concrete way.