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  1. The human being as a bumbling optimalist: A psychologist's viewpoint.Masanao Toda - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (2):235-235.
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  • Is economics still immersed in the old concepts of the Enlightenment era?Andrzej P. Wierzbicki - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (2):236-237.
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  • Complexity and optimality.Dauglas A. Miller & Steven W. Zucker - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (2):227-228.
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  • Optimality and constraint.David A. Helweg & Herbert L. Roitblat - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (2):222-223.
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  • Types of optimality: Who is the steersman?Michael E. Hyland - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (2):223-224.
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  • Natural science, social science and optimality.Oleg Larichev - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (2):224-225.
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  • Straining the word “optimal”.James E. Mazur - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (2):227-227.
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  • Vaulting optimality.Peter Dayan & Jon Oberlander - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (2):221-222.
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  • Some optimality principles in evolution.James F. Crow - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (2):218-219.
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  • Optimality as a mathematical rhetoric for zeroes.Fred L. Bookstein - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (2):216-217.
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  • Scotch'd the snake, not killed it.Peter T. Saunders & Mae-Wan Ho - 1987 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 10 (1):83-84.
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  • Optimist/pessimist.Elliott Sober - 1987 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 10 (1):87-88.
    The reception so far of Kitcher's Vaulting Ambition reminds me of the old saw about the difference between an optimist and a pessimist. Looking at the same glass of water, the former sees it as half full while the latter sees it as half empty. Some have seen Kitcher's book as a vindication of the possibility of an evolutionary science of human behavior; others have seen it as a devastating critique of the most influential efforts to date to construct such (...)
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  • Saving sociobiology: The use and abuse of logic.Irwin S. Bernstein - 1987 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 10 (1):73-73.
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  • Sociobiology and the problem of culture.John Dupré - 1987 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 10 (1):75-76.
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  • Faulting ambition: A double standard?Henry Harpending - 1987 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 10 (1):78-78.
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  • Useful distinctions in human sociobiology.Michael E. Lamb - 1987 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 10 (1):79-79.
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  • Enough of polemics – let's look at data!W. C. McGrew - 1987 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 10 (1):79-79.
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  • The leveller no. 1: Evolution, development, and culture.Mark Ridley - 1981 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 4 (2):249-250.
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  • Culture, protoculture, and the cultural pool.Eugene E. Ruyle - 1981 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 4 (2):251-252.
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  • The essence of sociobiology.David L. Hull - 1981 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 4 (2):242-243.
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  • Epigenesis and phylogenesis: Re-ordering the priorities.Timothy D. Johnston & Gilbert Gottlieb - 1981 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 4 (2):243-244.
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  • On constraints and adaptation.R. C. Lewontin - 1981 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 4 (2):244-245.
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  • On natural selection and culture.F. T. Cloak - 1981 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 4 (2):238-240.
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  • Multiplicity of evolutionary or developmental processes?Donald A. Dewsbury - 1981 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 4 (2):240-241.
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  • Indeterminacy is inherent in an inadequate model of evolution, not in nature.Douglas Wahlsten - 1981 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 4 (2):255-257.
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  • A defense of monolithic sociobiology and genetic mysticism.George C. Williams - 1981 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 4 (2):257-257.
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  • Problems And Paradigms: Metaphors and the role of genes in development.H. F. Nijhout - 1990 - Bioessays 12 (9):441-446.
    In describing the flawless regularity of developmental processes and the correlation between changes at certain genetic loci and changes in morphology, biologists frequently employ two metaphors: that genes ‘control’ development, and that genomes embody ‘programs’ for development. Although these metaphors have an admirable sharpness and punch, they lead, when taken literally, to highly distorted pictures of developmental processes. A more balanced, and useful, view of the role of genes in development is that they act as suppliers of the material needs (...)
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  • Isonymy and the structure of the Provençal-italian ethnic minority.G. Biondi, A. Vienna, J. A. Peña Garcia & C. G. N. Mascie-Taylor - 2005 - Journal of Biosocial Science 37 (2):163-174.
    Surnames were obtained for the second half of the 20th century from civil and religious marriage registers on fifteen Provençal-Italian and five Italian villages of Cuneo Province, Italy. To insert in the analysis an outward comparison, surnames from two Italian villages of Turin Province, one parish of Turin, one village of Alessandria Province and one village of Asti Province were also collected. Ethnicity does not seem to be the main factor affecting the present genetic structure of the Provençal-Italians. They are (...)
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  • The Long and Winding Road of Molecular Data in Phylogenetic Analysis.Edna Suárez-Díaz - 2014 - Journal of the History of Biology 47 (3):443-478.
    The use of molecules and reactions as evidence, markers and/or traits for evolutionary processes has a history more than a century long. Molecules have been used in studies of intra-specific variation and studies of similarity among species that do not necessarily result in the analysis of phylogenetic relations. Promoters of the use of molecular data have sustained the need for quantification as the main argument to make use of them. Moreover, quantification has allowed intensive statistical analysis, as a condition and (...)
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  • A Bayesian approach to the evolution of perceptual and cognitive systems.Wilson S. Geisler & Randy L. Diehl - 2003 - Cognitive Science 27 (3):379-402.
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  • Studying dialects in songbirds: Finding the common ground.Meredith J. West & Andrew P. King - 1985 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 8 (1):117-118.
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  • Bird-song dialects: Social adaptation or assortative mating?Luis F. Baptista - 1985 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 8 (1):100-101.
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  • The Biology of Bird-Song Dialects.Myron Charles Baker & Michael A. Cunningham - 1985 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 8 (1):85-100.
    No single theory so far proposed gives a wholly satisfactory account of the origin and maintenance of bird-song dialects. This failure is the consequence of a weak comparative literature that precludes careful comparisons among species or studies, and of the complexity of the issues involved. Complexity arises because dialects seem to bear upon a wide range of features in the life history of bird species. We give an account of the principal issues in bird-song dialects: evolution of vocal learning, experimental (...)
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  • Naturalizing Theorizing: Beyond a Theory of Biological Theories. [REVIEW]Werner Callebaut - 2013 - Biological Theory 7 (4):413-429.
    Although “theory” has been the prevalent unit of analysis in the meta-study of science throughout most of the twentieth century, the concept remains elusive. I further explore the leitmotiv of several authors in this issue: that we should deal with theorizing (rather than theory) in biology as a cognitive activity that is to be investigated naturalistically. I first contrast how philosophers and biologists have tended to think about theory in the last century or so, and consider recent calls to upgrade (...)
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  • A Web of Controversies: Complexity in the Burgess Shale Debate. [REVIEW]Christian Baron - 2011 - Journal of the History of Biology 44 (4):745 - 780.
    Using the Burgess Shale controversies as a case-study, this paper argues that controversies within different domains may interact as to create a situation of "complicated intricacies," where the practicing scientist has to navigate through a context of multiple thought collectives. To some extent each of these collectives has its own dynamic complete with fairly negotiated standards for investigation and explanation, theoretical background assumptions and certain peculiarities of practice. But the intellectual development in one of these collectives may "spill over" having (...)
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  • Fundamental laws and laws of biology.Pablo Lorenzano - 2006 - In Gerhard Ernst & Karl-Georg Niebergall (eds.), Philosophie der Wissenschaft – Wissenschaft der Philosophie. Festschrift für C.Ulises Moulines zum 60. Geburstag. Mentis. pp. 129-155.
    In this paper, I discuss the problem of scientific laws in general and laws of biology in particular. After reviewing the debate around the existence of laws in biology, I examine the subject in the light of the structuralist notion of a fundamental law and argue for the law of matching as the fundamental law of genetics.
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  • Goldschmidt’s Heresy and the Explanatory Promise of Ontogenetic Evolutionary Theory.Scott E. Kleiner - 1996 - Philosophica 58 (2).
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  • Mummy was a fetus: motherhood and fetal ovarian transplantation.J. M. Berkowitz - 1995 - Journal of Medical Ethics 21 (5):298-304.
    Infertility affects 15 per cent of the world's couples. Research at Edinburgh University has been directed at transplanting fetal ovarian tissue into infertile women, thus enabling them to bear children. Fetal ovary transplantation (FOT) has generated substantial controversy; in fact, one ethicist deemed the procedure 'so grotesque as to be unbelievable' (1). Some have suggested that fetal eggs may harbour unknown chromosomal abnormalities: however, there is no evidence that these eggs possess a higher incidence of genetic anomaly than ova found (...)
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  • Spirit, method, and content in science and religion: The theological perspective of a geneticist.Lindon Eaves - 1989 - Zygon 24 (2):185-216.
    There are three ways in which bridges may be built between science and theology: spirituality, methodology, and content. Spirituality is the power which drives each to address reality and the expectations with which each approaches the pursuit of truth. The methodology of science is summarized in terms of three activities: taxonomy; the hypothetico‐deductive cycle; derivative technology. The content of science, especially with respect to the phenomena of givenness, connectedness and openness in the life sciences, is correlated with theological constructs. Attention (...)
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  • Book reviews : Problems of scientific revolution: Progress and obstacles to progress in the sciences. The Herbert Spencer lectures 1973. Edited by Rom Harré. Toronto: Oxford university press, 1975. Pp. VI + 104. Can. $5.75. [REVIEW]David L. Hull - 1976 - Philosophy of the Social Sciences 6 (4):375-380.
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  • Gene talk in sociobiology.Henry Howe & John Lyne - 1992 - Social Epistemology 6 (2):109-163.
    Terminology within the biological sciences gets its import not just from semantic meaning, but also from the way it functions within the rhetorics of the various disciplinary practices. The ‘sociobiology’ of human behavior inherits three distinct rhetorics from the genetic disciplines. Sociobiologists use population genetic, biometrical genetic, and molecular genetic rhetorics, without acknowledging the conceptual and experimental constraints that are assumed by geneticists. The eclectic blending of these three rhetorics obscures important differences of context and meaning. Sociobiologists use foundational terms (...)
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  • Moving past the levels of selection debates: review of Samir Okasha’s Evolution and the Levels of Selection: Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2006. [REVIEW]Stephen M. Downes - 2010 - Biology and Philosophy 25 (3):417-423.
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  • Evolution in thermodynamic perspective: An ecological approach. [REVIEW]Bruce H. Weber, David J. Depew, C. Dyke, Stanley N. Salthe, Eric D. Schneider, Robert E. Ulanowicz & Jeffrey S. Wicken - 1989 - Biology and Philosophy 4 (4):373-405.
    Recognition that biological systems are stabilized far from equilibrium by self-organizing, informed, autocatalytic cycles and structures that dissipate unusable energy and matter has led to recent attempts to reformulate evolutionary theory. We hold that such insights are consistent with the broad development of the Darwinian Tradition and with the concept of natural selection. Biological systems are selected that re not only more efficient than competitors but also enhance the integrity of the web of energetic relations in which they are embedded. (...)
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  • Neo-rationalism versus neo-darwinism: Integrating development and evolution. [REVIEW]Kelly C. Smith - 1992 - Biology and Philosophy 7 (4):431-451.
    An increasing number of biologists are expressing discontent with the prevailing theory of neo-Darwinism. In particular, the tendency of neo-Darwinians to adopt genetic determinism and atomistic notions of both genes and organisms is seen as grossly unfair to the body of developmental theory. One faction of dissenteers, the Process Structuralists, take their inspiration from the rational morphologists who preceded Darwin. These neo-rationalists argue that a mature biology must possess universal laws and that these generative laws should be sought within organismal (...)
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  • What price optimality?Barbara L. Horan - 1992 - Biology and Philosophy 7 (1):89-109.
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  • Unlocking the Black box between genotype and phenotype: Cell condensations as morphogenetic (modular) units. [REVIEW]Brian K. Hall - 2003 - Biology and Philosophy 18 (2):219-247.
    Embryonic development and ontogeny occupy whatis often depicted as the black box betweengenes – the genotype – and the features(structures, functions, behaviors) of organisms– the phenotype; the phenotype is not merelya one-to-one readout of the genotype. Thegenes home, context, and locus of operation isthe cell. Initially, in ontogeny, that cell isthe single-celled zygote. As developmentensues, multicellular assemblages of like cells(modules) progressively organized as germlayers, embryonic fields, anlage,condensations, or blastemata, enable genes toplay their roles in development and evolution.As modules, condensations are (...)
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  • Between beanbag genetics and natural selection.Raphael Falk - 1990 - Biology and Philosophy 5 (3):313-325.
    The encounter between the Darwinian theory of evolution and Mendelism could be resolved only when reductionist tools could be applied to the analysis of complex systems. The instrumental reductionist interpretation of the hereditary basis of continuously varying traits provided mathematical tools which eventually allowed the construction of the Modern Synthesis of the theory of evolution.When genotypic as well as environmental variance allow the isolation of parts of the system, it is possible to apply Mendelian reductionism, that is , to treat (...)
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  • The beanbag genetics controversy: Towards a synthesis of opposing views of natural selection. [REVIEW]Willem de Winter - 1997 - Biology and Philosophy 12 (2):149-184.
    The beanbag genetics controversy can be traced from the dispute between Fisher and Wright, through Mayr''s influential promotion of the issue, to the contemporary units of selection debate. It centers on the claim that genic models of natural selection break down in the face of epistatic interactions among genes during phenotypic development. This claim is explored from both a conceptual and a quantitative point of view, and is shown to be defective on both counts.Firstly, an analysis of the controversy''s theoretical (...)
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  • The competition controversy in community ecology.Gregory Cooper - 1993 - Biology and Philosophy 8 (4):359-384.
    There is a long history of controversy in ecology over the role of competition in determining patterns of distribution and abundance, and over the significance of the mathematical modeling of competitive interactions. This paper examines the controversy. Three kinds of considerations have been involved at one time or another during the history of this debate. There has been dispute about the kinds of regularities ecologists can expect to find, about the significance of evolutionary considerations for ecological inquiry, and about the (...)
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  • A peculiar consequence of nicod's criterion.Paul Horwich - 1978 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 29 (3):262-263.
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