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  1. Book reviews. [REVIEW]Roderick M. Chisholm, John Corcoran, Jorge Gracia, L. S. Carrier, T. N. Pelegrinis, Alfred L. Ivry, D. S. Clarke, Leo Rauch, Robert Young, Michael J. Loux, Rita Nolan, Gerald Vision, E. D. Klemke, Ruth Anna Putnam, Edward S. Reed, Maurice Mandelbaum, John Wettersten & Rachel Shihor - 1983 - Philosophia 13 (1-2):359-362.
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  • Darwinism Then and Now: The Divide Over Form and Function.Michael Ruse - 2010 - Science & Education 19 (4-5):367-389.
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  • Individuals, populations and the balance of nature: the question of persistence in ecology.G. H. Walter - 2008 - Biology and Philosophy 23 (3):417-438.
    Explaining the persistence of populations is an important quest in ecology, and is a modern manifestation of the balance of nature metaphor. Increasingly, however, ecologists see populations (and ecological systems generally) as not being in equilibrium or balance. The portrayal of ecological systems as “non-equilibrium” is seen as a strong alternative to deterministic or equilibrium ecology, but this approach fails to provide much theoretical or practical guidance, and warrants formalisation at a more fundamental level. This is available in adaptation theory, (...)
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  • The ethology behind human ethology.Jack P. Hailman - 1979 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2 (1):35-36.
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  • What the ethologist's eye tells the ethologist's brain.Peter H. Klopfer - 1979 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2 (1):39-40.
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  • Optimal confusion.Stephanie Stolarz-Fantino & Edmund Fantino - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (2):234-234.
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  • Rational agents, real people and the quest for optimality.Eldar Shafir - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (2):232-232.
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  • Avoid the push-pull dilemma in explanation.Kenneth M. Steele - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (2):233-234.
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  • Evolution and populations.Paul C. Mundinger - 1981 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 4 (2):245-246.
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  • Levels of organization, selection, and information storage in biological and social evaluation.Donald T. Campbell - 1981 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 4 (2):236-237.
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  • A multiple-level model of evolution and its implications for sociobiology.H. C. Plotkin & F. J. Odling-Smee - 1981 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 4 (2):225-235.
    The fundamental tenet of contemporary sociobiology, namely the assumption of a single process of evolution involving the selection of genes, is critically examined. An alternative multiple-level, multiple-process model of evolution is presented which posits that the primary process that operates via selection upon the genes cannot account for certain kinds of biological phenomena, especially complex, learned, social behaviours. The primary process has evolved subsidiary evolutionary levels and processes that act to bridge the gap between genes and these complex behaviours. The (...)
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  • Social adaptiveness in human and songbird dialects.J. K. Chambers - 1985 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 8 (1):102-104.
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  • Avian song dialects: Genetic adaptation and deceptive mimicry?William M. Shields - 1985 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 8 (1):114-115.
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  • J. B. S. Haldane, Ernst Mayr and the Beanbag Genetics Dispute.Veena Rao & Vidyanand Nanjundiah - 2011 - Journal of the History of Biology 44 (2):233 - 281.
    Starting from the early decades of the twentieth century, evolutionary biology began to acquire mathematical overtones. This took place via the development of a set of models in which the Darwinian picture of evolution was shown to be consistent with the laws of heredity discovered by Mendel. The models, which came to be elaborated over the years, define a field of study known as population genetics. Population genetics is generally looked upon as an essential component of modern evolutionary theory. This (...)
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  • Survival with an asymmetrical brain: Advantages and disadvantages of cerebral lateralization.Giorgio Vallortigara & Lesley J. Rogers - 2005 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 28 (4):575-589.
    Recent evidence in natural and semi-natural settings has revealed a variety of left-right perceptual asymmetries among vertebrates. These include preferential use of the left or right visual hemifield during activities such as searching for food, agonistic responses, or escape from predators in animals as different as fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. There are obvious disadvantages in showing such directional asymmetries because relevant stimuli may be located to the animal's left or right at random; there is no a priori association (...)
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  • Adaptationism and the power of selection.Peter Godfrey-Smith - 1999 - Biology and Philosophy 14 (2):181-194.
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  • The units of selection revisited: The modules of selection. [REVIEW]Robert N. Brandon - 1999 - Biology and Philosophy 14 (2):167-180.
    Richard Lewontin's (1970) early work on the units of selection initiated the conceptual and theoretical investigations that have led to the hierarchical perspective on selection that has reached near consensus status today. This paper explores other aspects of his work, work on what he termed continuity and quasi-independence, that connect to contemporary explorations of modularity in development and evolution. I characterize such modules and argue that they are the true units of selection in that they are what evolution by natural (...)
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  • Stochastic evolutionary dynamics: Drift versus draft.Robert A. Skipper - 2006 - Philosophy of Science 73 (5):655-665.
    In a small handful of papers in theoretical population genetics, John Gillespie (2000a, 2000b, 2001) argues that a new stochastic process he calls "genetic draft" is evolutionarily more significant than genetic drift. This case study of chance in evolution explores Gillespie's proposed stochastic evolutionary force and sketches the implications of Gillespie's argument for philosophers' explorations of genetic drift.
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  • On inference in ecology and evolutionary biology: The problem of multiple causes.Ray Hilborn & Stephen C. Stearns - 1982 - Acta Biotheoretica 31 (3):145-164.
    If one investigates a process that has several causes but assumes that it has only one cause, one risks ruling out important causal factors. Three mechanisms account for this mistake: either the significance of the single cause under test is masked by noise contributed by the unsuspected and uncontrolled factors, or the process appears only when two or more causes interact, or the process appears when there are present any of a number of sufficient causes which are not mutally exclusive. (...)
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  • Moving past the levels of selection debates: Samir Okasha, Evolution and the levels of selection, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006.Stephen M. Downes - 2009 - Biology and Philosophy 24 (5):703-709.
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  • Religion, Misallodoxy and the Teaching of Evolution: The Influence of Michael Matthews.Michael Ruse - 2015 - Science & Education 24 (7-8):815-820.
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  • Gerd B. Müller and Massimo Pigliucci—Extended Synthesis: Theory Expansion or Alternative? : Criticism of the Extended Synthesis: A Response to Müller and Pigliucci.Lindsay R. Craig - 2010 - Biological Theory 5 (4):395-396.
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  • Race, Genomics, and Philosophy of Science.Jonathan Michael Kaplan, Ludovica Lorusso & Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther - 2014 - Critical Philosophy of Race 2 (2):160-223.
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  • Understanding and attenuating the complexity catastrophe in Kauffman'sN K model of genome evolution.Daniel Solow, Apostolos Burnetas, Ming-Chi Tsai & Neil S. Greenspan - 1999 - Complexity 5 (1):53-66.
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  • Human ethology and the ontogeny of emotional expressions.Carroll E. Izard - 1979 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2 (1):39-39.
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  • Brain complexity enhances speed of behavioral evolution.H. P. Lipp - 1979 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2 (1):42-42.
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  • “Instincts,” infants, adults, and behavior.Ashley Montagu - 1979 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2 (1):42-43.
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  • On human ethology: some methodological comments.Steven A. Peterson - 1979 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2 (1):43-44.
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  • Ethology versus sociobiology: competitive displays.Pierre L. van den Berghe - 1979 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2 (1):46-48.
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  • Some logical fallacies in the classical ethological point of view.Douglas Wahlsten - 1979 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2 (1):48-49.
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  • The functional significance of behavior.Robert C. Bolles - 1979 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2 (1):29-30.
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  • Levels of selection and human ethology.Gerald Borgia - 1979 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2 (1):30-30.
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  • “It's true, but we don't know why:” Problems in validating human ethological hypotheses.William R. Charlesworth - 1979 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2 (1):30-31.
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  • Cerebral building blocks and behavioral mechanisms.José M. R. Delgado - 1979 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2 (1):31-32.
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  • Cross-cultural methodology and ethological universals.Gordon E. Finley - 1979 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2 (1):32-33.
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  • Analogy and dimensions of behaviour.Peter J. Fraser - 1979 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2 (1):33-33.
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  • Has human ethology rediscovered Darwinism?Michael T. Ghiselin - 1979 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2 (1):33-34.
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  • An eclectric history of ethological theory and methods.Glenn Hausfater - 1979 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2 (1):36-37.
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  • The problem of human ethology from the perspective of an experimental psychologist.Howard S. Hoffman - 1979 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2 (1):37-38.
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  • Human ethology and human sociobiology.David P. Barash - 1979 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2 (1):26-27.
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  • The dangers of analogy in human ethology.Burton Benedict - 1979 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2 (1):27-27.
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  • Don't just sit there, optimise something.J. H. P. Paelinck - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (2):230-230.
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  • Two dynamic criteria for validating claims of optimality.Geoffrey F. Miller - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (2):228-229.
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  • The example of psychology: Optimism, not optimality.Daniel S. Levine - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (2):225-226.
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  • Why optimality is not worth arguing about.Stephen E. G. Lea - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (2):225-225.
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  • Natural selection doesn't have goals, but it's the reason organisms do.Martin Daly - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (2):219-220.
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  • Criteria for optimality.Michel Cabanac - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (2):218-218.
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  • Confessions of a curmudgeon.Philip Kitcher - 1987 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 10 (1):89-99.
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  • Rising out of the ashes.H. C. Plotkin - 1987 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 10 (1):79-80.
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  • Is there really “juggling,” “artifice,” and “trickery” in Genes, Mind, and Culture?Alexander Rosenberg - 1987 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 10 (1):80-82.
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