Why Gould Was WrongStephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) was a leading critic of human behavioral genetics, human sociobiology, evolutionary psychology, and the modern evolutionary synthesis. Why Gould Was Wrong explains why Gould's claims were horribly wrong. |
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... adaptive behavior . . 144 181. A “ just - so❞ story is not a “ just - so❞ story 182. What a turn of events ! 183. Confusion 145 145 145 184. Wilson is not a genius 146 146 185. No one changed his / her mind Part Three : A List of ...
... adaptive behavior . . 144 181. A “ just - so❞ story is not a “ just - so❞ story 182. What a turn of events ! 183. Confusion 145 145 145 184. Wilson is not a genius 146 146 185. No one changed his / her mind Part Three : A List of ...
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... adaptive way . Hands and kidneys and livers and noses and eyes and ears and so on everything's adapted for something . " -John Maynard Smith " The mind is an adaptation designed by natural selection ... And the ulti- mate goal of ...
... adaptive way . Hands and kidneys and livers and noses and eyes and ears and so on everything's adapted for something . " -John Maynard Smith " The mind is an adaptation designed by natural selection ... And the ulti- mate goal of ...
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... adaptive problems faced by our hunter - gatherer ancestors . " —Leda Cosmodes and John Tooby " There was a revolution in biology in the mid 1960s , pioneered especially by two men , George Williams and William Hamilton . This revolution ...
... adaptive problems faced by our hunter - gatherer ancestors . " —Leda Cosmodes and John Tooby " There was a revolution in biology in the mid 1960s , pioneered especially by two men , George Williams and William Hamilton . This revolution ...
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... adaptive features " outside the compass of evolutionary psychology . " Nor was Gould " the first to call attention to them . ” The original arguments for recognizing non - adaptive features came from the founding document of evolu ...
... adaptive features " outside the compass of evolutionary psychology . " Nor was Gould " the first to call attention to them . ” The original arguments for recognizing non - adaptive features came from the founding document of evolu ...
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... adaptive. Theories of adaptive function are important for explaining why a known instinct exists and for discovering new instincts. It is important to realize that our neuropathways were not designed for any kind of behavior. The only ...
... adaptive. Theories of adaptive function are important for explaining why a known instinct exists and for discovering new instincts. It is important to realize that our neuropathways were not designed for any kind of behavior. The only ...
Contents
The Modern Synthesis | 83 |
Mendel Watson Crick | 84 |
Chomskys rediscovery | 85 |
Paul McLean | 86 |
Competing syntheses | 87 |
Desmond John Morris | 88 |
Gould strongly attacked EP | 89 |
Pinker Wright and Buss | 90 |
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Charles Lyell and Robert Chambers | 74 |
Wallace and Darwin | 75 |
The period between roughly 1875 and 1910 | 76 |
The continuity of man and animals | 77 |
John Hughlings Jackson | 78 |
Instinct psychology | 79 |
Crazy claims | 80 |
Margaret Mead | 81 |
Lysenkoism and NeoLysenkoism | 82 |
Timothy Perper | 91 |
The prerequisites | 92 |
Those who never understand | 93 |
They were attacking everything | 94 |
Discourteous language | 95 |
It had to be imported | 96 |
He was attacking a straw man | 97 |
Illogical science | 98 |
Inferring ought from is | 99 |
Ill chosen examples | 100 |
A good empirical fit | 101 |
Gould occupied a rather curious position | 102 |
The hypothesis of punctuated equilibria | 103 |
Misunderstanding the selfish gene | 104 |
The tragic history of environmentalism | 105 |
An instinct has two parts | 106 |
More learning causes | 107 |
The instinct of Us and Them | 108 |
They misused a symposium | 109 |
Wilsons new holism | 110 |
A normal situation 086 They had not read the literature 087 A false identification | 111 |
Illogical moral guilt | 112 |
The theory was not Wilsons theory | 113 |
LSE was rather embarrassed | 114 |
Social sociobiologists | 115 |
A collection of lies | 116 |
Politically motivated attack | 117 |
The unit of selection | 118 |
Constraints | 119 |
Goulds theory of biological potentiality | 120 |
Learning and genetic determinism | 121 |
R Dawkins and B D Davis picked up the battleaxe | 122 |
Circumvention of destructive behavior | 123 |
The critics and kin selection | 124 |
An unrealistic view of science | 125 |
SSG and sexism | 126 |
Goulds level of explanation | 127 |
Gould et al on genetic variation | 128 |
Gould was critical about ideological assumptions | 129 |
Gould on averages | 130 |
Wilson admired Marxist thinking | 131 |
Goulds odd definition of racist | 132 |
New discoveries | 133 |
The Bell Curve | 134 |
Questioning the Millennium | 135 |
The Blind Watchmaker | 136 |
Gould attacked the new consensus | 137 |
The gene as an informational unit | 138 |
The critics and the constructivists | 139 |
Consilience the synthesis of syntheses | 140 |
On ontology | 141 |
They declared aggression nonexistent | 142 |
U Segerstrale on free will | 143 |
Culture is mostly based on natural behavior | 144 |
A justso story is not a justso story | 145 |
Wilson is not a genius | 146 |
A List of Modular Behavior Proves That Gould Was Wrong | 147 |
Modular human behavior | 148 |
Gould denied the existence of traitgenetic independence | 151 |
A List of Modular Genetic Damage Proves That Gould Was Wrong | 338 |
Genes suffer accumulative damage | 339 |
DSMIVTR | 340 |
Bibliography chronologicalalphabetical | 659 |
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