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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... confused intelligence with competence / expertise . 040. Oskar and Jack explain our situational instincts .. 041. Adoption proves that instincts are situational .. 042. Psychology is a branch of biology ... 043. Sensory receptors and ...
... confused intelligence with competence / expertise . 040. Oskar and Jack explain our situational instincts .. 041. Adoption proves that instincts are situational .. 042. Psychology is a branch of biology ... 043. Sensory receptors and ...
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... confused the effect of a trait with the trait itself . 132. Gould was critical about ideological assumptions 128 129 133. Criticism can be fun . . . 129 134. Gould did not give credit to recent developments . . 129 135. Gould on ...
... confused the effect of a trait with the trait itself . 132. Gould was critical about ideological assumptions 128 129 133. Criticism can be fun . . . 129 134. Gould did not give credit to recent developments . . 129 135. Gould on ...
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... Confusion 145 145 145 184. Wilson is not a genius 146 146 185. No one changed his / her mind Part Three : A List of Modular Behavior Proves That Gould Was Wrong 001. Modular human behavior 002. Gould denied the existence of trait ...
... Confusion 145 145 145 184. Wilson is not a genius 146 146 185. No one changed his / her mind Part Three : A List of Modular Behavior Proves That Gould Was Wrong 001. Modular human behavior 002. Gould denied the existence of trait ...
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... confused as to be not worth bothering with.” Gould seemed to be unable to distinguish between wishful thinking and scientific thinking Example: Gould claimed that the sex difference in brain size doesn't exist at all. He claimed that ...
... confused as to be not worth bothering with.” Gould seemed to be unable to distinguish between wishful thinking and scientific thinking Example: Gould claimed that the sex difference in brain size doesn't exist at all. He claimed that ...
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... confused behavior with actions. Human actions are triggered by internal and external situations and so are NOT innate, but human behavior is species specific, and so IS innate. Example: A specific reli- gion is actions and is not innate ...
... confused behavior with actions. Human actions are triggered by internal and external situations and so are NOT innate, but human behavior is species specific, and so IS innate. Example: A specific reli- gion is actions and is not innate ...
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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