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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... Marxist thinking . 141. Gould vs Boyle . 130 130 130 130 131 131 142. Wilson and Gould on moral values . 131 143. Religion is an instinct . 131 144. Gould's odd definition of “ racist ” . 132 145. The instinctual quest for moral ...
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Contents
Goulds View Versus the Evolutionary View | 1 |
Stephen Jay Gould 19412002 | 2 |
The term sociobiology | 3 |
But the horse kicked back | 4 |
NeoLysenkoism | 5 |
Gould had no alternative research program to offer | 6 |
The reemergence of human sociobiology under a new name | 7 |
Gould on panadaptationism | 8 |
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 |
Gould on the vision of evolutionary psychology | 9 |
Gould on the human mind | 10 |
Presentist | 13 |
Cyril Burt was right and honest Gould was wrong and dishonest | 14 |
Data selection | 15 |
Goulds view was antiquated | 16 |
Goulds writing | 17 |
Goulds thinking | 18 |
Pathological naysaying? | 19 |
The Structure of Stephen Jay Goulds Evolutionary Theory | 20 |
Our huntergatherer ancestors | 22 |
Human instincts are open programs | 23 |
Oskar and Jack explain our situational instincts | 24 |
Adoption proves that instincts are situational | 25 |
Psychology is a branch of biology | 26 |
Sensory receptors and motor neurons | 27 |
Adaptations byproducts and noise | 28 |
Just the tip of the iceberg | 29 |
A contentrich system | 30 |
We have more instincts than other species | 31 |
Interaction or situationality? | 32 |
Modular adaptations instincts | 33 |
A meaningless question | 34 |
The heritability coefficient rises | 37 |
Consciousness is not holistic | 38 |
Smaller and smaller agents | 39 |
Instinctual scientists | 40 |
Not genetically identical | 41 |
MZ twins in the same pair do not necessarily have the same genetic diseases | 42 |
Identical behavior | 43 |
They kept themselves exceptionally clean and tidy | 44 |
Identical wills | 45 |
A gene for behavior X | 46 |
Situational and independent | 47 |
Now its time to sum up | 48 |
Certain instincts seem to hang together | 49 |
Perception and memory are instinctual | 50 |
Language and thinking are independent | 51 |
The critical periods | 52 |
Correlation contradicts environmentalism | 53 |
How about peers? | 54 |
Inbreeding depression | 55 |
The flawed Flynn Effekt | 56 |
The genetic catastrophe | 57 |
Evolution would be impossible | 58 |
The same parts | 59 |
Animal brains including human brains | 60 |
A familys pedigree | 61 |
Innate memory | 63 |
Innate musicality | 64 |
Fight mind is difficult | 65 |
An instinct is active or inactive | 66 |
The concept of instinct is totally clear | 67 |
Abnormal instincts | 68 |
Goulds View and the History of the Evolutionary View | 70 |
Tabula rasa | 71 |
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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