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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... claimed that the sex difference in 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 ...
... claimed that the sex difference in 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 ...
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... claimed that evolution had occurred mainly through revolutionary jumps , rather than by small steps . In a scientific paper he supports this claim with a citation from Marx : " Darwin's gradualism was part of the cultural context , not ...
... claimed that evolution had occurred mainly through revolutionary jumps , rather than by small steps . In a scientific paper he supports this claim with a citation from Marx : " Darwin's gradualism was part of the cultural context , not ...
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... claimed precisely the reverse . But Gould regurgitated his claims . Evolutionary psychologists replied ... And so on ... claiming that Gould had exposed intentional distortion of evidence by nineteenth century anthropologists. But in ...
... claimed precisely the reverse . But Gould regurgitated his claims . Evolutionary psychologists replied ... And so on ... claiming that Gould had exposed intentional distortion of evidence by nineteenth century anthropologists. But in ...
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... claimed! 017. Gould. on. the. human. mind. Gould did not believe that the human mind itself is CREATED by evolution, and therefore MUST be innate. And he confused behavior with actions. Human actions are triggered by internal and external ...
... claimed! 017. Gould. on. the. human. mind. Gould did not believe that the human mind itself is CREATED by evolution, and therefore MUST be innate. And he confused behavior with actions. Human actions are triggered by internal and external ...
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... claimed that human instincts were used to excuse evildoers as victims of biology . Gould obviously confused biology and moral . And he confused “ instinct ” and “ capacity ” . Certainly , an instinct HAS a " capacity " , but an instinct ...
... claimed that human instincts were used to excuse evildoers as victims of biology . Gould obviously confused biology and moral . And he confused “ instinct ” and “ capacity ” . Certainly , an instinct HAS a " capacity " , but an instinct ...
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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