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Is Neural Darwinism Darwinism?
Artificial Life, 1997Neural Darwinism is a theory of cognition developed by Gerald Edelman along with George Reeke and Olaf Sporns at Rockefeller University. As its name suggests, neural Darwinism is modeled after biological Darwinism, and its authors assert that the two processes are strongly analogous.
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Reflections on Darwin and Darwinizing
Victorian Studies, 2009Although there is a vast literature about Darwin there remains an urgent need, particularly in the field of literary studies, for greater understanding of his work. This essay examines current trends in Darwinian criticism, contrasting Literary Darwinism--which seeks in literature the "human nature" being defined by evolutionary psychology--with other ...
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Darwinism and Social Darwinism
2009From the 1830s, doctrines of creationism were increasingly challenged, initially by geological discoveries and then by evolutionary theories, which were first applied to animal and plant species, and later extended to humanity. Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection, introduced in 1859 in The Origin of Species, led to the emergence of the term ...
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Searching for Darwinism in Generalized Darwinism
The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 2015AbstractWhile evolutionary thinking is increasingly becoming popular in fields of investigation outside the biological sciences, it remains unclear how helpful it is there and whether it actually y...
Thomas A. C. Reydon, Markus Scholz
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Psychological Reports, 1974
We provide critical comments on a recent paper by Barash (1972) in which he describes the seating preferences and frequencies of looking up by students in a cafeteria. While we do not quarrel with his data, we reject the evolutionary assumptions and ethological identifications which are explicitly introduced throughout Barash's paper.
P R, Harrison, J H, Reynierse
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We provide critical comments on a recent paper by Barash (1972) in which he describes the seating preferences and frequencies of looking up by students in a cafeteria. While we do not quarrel with his data, we reject the evolutionary assumptions and ethological identifications which are explicitly introduced throughout Barash's paper.
P R, Harrison, J H, Reynierse
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2018
In the forty-plus years, from the time of the Descent in 1871 to the time of the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, people influenced by or responding to Darwin’s thinking wrote extensively on the nature of war. Often, religious upbringing—as for Herbert Spencer and Alfred Russel Wallace—infused discussions showing how really the whole debate was
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In the forty-plus years, from the time of the Descent in 1871 to the time of the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, people influenced by or responding to Darwin’s thinking wrote extensively on the nature of war. Often, religious upbringing—as for Herbert Spencer and Alfred Russel Wallace—infused discussions showing how really the whole debate was
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Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2009
Darwinism appears in many more academic areas than just evolutionary biology. New disciplines are created out of its fusion with existing fields of study. However, this practise is criticised for a lack of evidence-based justification, and for adopting gene-oriented reductionism in the social sciences.
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Darwinism appears in many more academic areas than just evolutionary biology. New disciplines are created out of its fusion with existing fields of study. However, this practise is criticised for a lack of evidence-based justification, and for adopting gene-oriented reductionism in the social sciences.
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Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 2012
There is widespread agreement among contemporary philosophers of biology and philosophically-minded biologists that Darwin's insights about the intrusion of chance processes into biological regularities undermines the possibility of there being biological laws.
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There is widespread agreement among contemporary philosophers of biology and philosophically-minded biologists that Darwin's insights about the intrusion of chance processes into biological regularities undermines the possibility of there being biological laws.
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