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The Mirage Of A Space Between Nature And Nurture By Evelyn Fox Keller (Review), David Depew
The Mirage Of A Space Between Nature And Nurture By Evelyn Fox Keller (Review), David Depew
David J Depew
No abstract provided.
Adaptation As Process: The Future Of Darwinism And The Legacy Of Theodosius Dobzhansky, David Depew
Adaptation As Process: The Future Of Darwinism And The Legacy Of Theodosius Dobzhansky, David Depew
David J Depew
Conceptions of adaptation have varied in the history of genetic Darwinism depending on whether what is taken to be focal is the process of adaptation, adapted states of populations, or discrete adaptations in individual organisms. I argue that Theodosius Dobzhansky’s view of adaptation as a dynamical process contrasts with so-called “adaptationist” views of natural selection figured as “design-without-a-designer” of relatively discrete, enumerable adaptations. Correlated with these respectively process and product oriented approaches to adaptive natural selection are divergent pictures of organisms themselves as developmental wholes or as “bundles” of adaptations. While even process versions of genetical Darwinism are insufficiently sensitive …
Mariska Leunissen, Explanation And Teleology In Aristotle’S Science Of Nature, David J. Depew
Mariska Leunissen, Explanation And Teleology In Aristotle’S Science Of Nature, David J. Depew
David J Depew
No abstract provided.
Darwinian Controversies: An Historiographical Recounting, David Depew
Darwinian Controversies: An Historiographical Recounting, David Depew
David J Depew
This essay reviews key controversies in the history of the Darwinian research tradition: the Wilberforce-Huxley debate in 1860, early twentieth-century debates about the heritability of acquired characteristics and the consistency of Mendelian genetics with natural selection; the 1925 Scopes trial about teaching evolution; tensions about race, culture, and eugenics at the 1959 centenary celebration Darwin’s Origin of Species; adaptationism and its critics in the Sociobiology debate of 1970s and, more recently, Evolutionary Psychology; and current disputes about Intelligent Design. These controversies, I argue, are etched into public memory because they occur at the emotionally charged boundaries between public-political, technical-scientific, and …
Is Evolutionary Biology Infected With Invalid Teleological Reasoning? Invited Review Essay Of John Reiss, Retiring Darwin’S Watchmaker., David Depew
David J Depew
No abstract provided.
Paul Crook, Darwin’S Coat-Tails. Essays On Social Darwinism., David Depew
Paul Crook, Darwin’S Coat-Tails. Essays On Social Darwinism., David Depew
David J Depew
No abstract provided.
David Sedley, Creationism And Its Critics In Antiquity, David Depew
David Sedley, Creationism And Its Critics In Antiquity, David Depew
David J Depew
No abstract provided.
Inheriting Inherit The Wind: Debating The Play As A Teaching Tool, Edward Larson, David Depew, Ronald Isetti
Inheriting Inherit The Wind: Debating The Play As A Teaching Tool, Edward Larson, David Depew, Ronald Isetti
David J Depew
No abstract provided.
Bert Bender, Evolution And The Sex Problem (Review), David Depew
Bert Bender, Evolution And The Sex Problem (Review), David Depew
David J Depew
No abstract provided.
[James Mark] Baldwin And His Many Effects, David Depew
[James Mark] Baldwin And His Many Effects, David Depew
David J Depew
No abstract provided.
From Heat Engines To Digital Printouts: A Tropology Of The Organism From The Victorian Era To The Human Genome Project, David J. Depew
From Heat Engines To Digital Printouts: A Tropology Of The Organism From The Victorian Era To The Human Genome Project, David J. Depew
David J Depew
No abstract provided.
Protecting Evolutionary Theory From Bad Company: J. Strick, Sparks Of Life: Darwinism And The Victorian Debates Over Spontaneous Generation (Review), David J. Depew
David J Depew
No abstract provided.
Darwinism Evolving: Systems Dynamics And The Genealogy Of Natural Selection, David Depew, Bruce Weber
Darwinism Evolving: Systems Dynamics And The Genealogy Of Natural Selection, David Depew, Bruce Weber
David J Depew
Darwinism Evolving examines the Darwinian research tradition in evolutionary biology from its inception to its turbulent present, arguing that recent advances in modeling the nonlinear dynamics of complex systems may well catalyze the next major phase of Darwinian evolutionism.While Darwinism has successfully resisted reduction to physics, the authors point out that it has from the outset developed and applied its core explanatory concept, natural selection, by borrowing models from dynamics, a branch of physics. The recent development of complex systems dynamics may afford Darwinism yet another occasion to expand its explanatory power.Darwinism's use of dynamical models has received insufficient attention …
Evolution At A Crossroads: The New Biology And The New Philosophy Of Science, David Depew, Bruce Weber
Evolution At A Crossroads: The New Biology And The New Philosophy Of Science, David Depew, Bruce Weber
David J Depew
No abstract provided.