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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... brains ( including human brains ) 60 107. Non - human intelligence 60 108. A family's pedigree . . 61 109. Extraordinary people . . . 61 110. Innate memory 63 111. Innate caculator . . 63 112. Innate creativity . 63 113. Innate capacity ...
... brains ( including human brains ) 60 107. Non - human intelligence 60 108. A family's pedigree . . 61 109. Extraordinary people . . . 61 110. Innate memory 63 111. Innate caculator . . 63 112. Innate creativity . 63 113. Innate capacity ...
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... Brain atlas ” maps the human mind 91 041. Gould's bibliography 042. The prerequisites . 91 92 043. Lynn Margulis ' message . 92 044. Environmental determinism has relaxed . . 92 045. Those who never understand . . 93 046. They were ...
... Brain atlas ” maps the human mind 91 041. Gould's bibliography 042. The prerequisites . 91 92 043. Lynn Margulis ' message . 92 044. Environmental determinism has relaxed . . 92 045. Those who never understand . . 93 046. They were ...
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... brain size doesn't exist at all. He claimed that the sex difference disappears “when appropriate sta- tistical correlations are made.” Therefore he invoked additional unspecified age and body parameters, claiming that “if these could be ...
... brain size doesn't exist at all. He claimed that the sex difference disappears “when appropriate sta- tistical correlations are made.” Therefore he invoked additional unspecified age and body parameters, claiming that “if these could be ...
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... brain size. His story of harassment and intimidation by the Neo-Lysenkoists is terrible. And many other leading scien- tists were victims of harassment and intimidation. Well known examples are: Hans Eysenck (in the UK), Arthur Jensen ...
... brain size. His story of harassment and intimidation by the Neo-Lysenkoists is terrible. And many other leading scien- tists were victims of harassment and intimidation. Well known examples are: Hans Eysenck (in the UK), Arthur Jensen ...
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... brain in vivo. MRI studies show a correlation of about 0.40 between brain size and IQ. Gould does not even mention these new discoveries—probably because they prove that IQ is largely genetic because brain size is genetic. Gould was in ...
... brain in vivo. MRI studies show a correlation of about 0.40 between brain size and IQ. Gould does not even mention these new discoveries—probably because they prove that IQ is largely genetic because brain size is genetic. Gould was in ...
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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