adaptationism

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Ahouse, J.C. 1998. The tragedy of a priori selectionism: Dennett and Gould on adaptationism. Biology and Philosophy 13: 359—391.

Keywords: adaptationism • algorithm • atavism • contingency • deep homology • Dennett • exaptation • Gould • metaphor • punctuated equilibrium • selectionism • spandrels.

Amundson, R.A. 1998. Typology reconsidered: Two doctrines on the history of evolutionary biology. Biology and Philosophy 13: 153—177. [abstract]

Keywords: adaptationism • essentialism • idealism • morphology • Richard Owen.

Chemero, A. 1998. Teleosemantics and the critique of adaptationism. Evolution and Cognition 4: 136—144.

Keywords: adaptationism • meaning • Millikan • teleosemantics.

Continenza, B./Gagliasso, E. 1996. Giochi aperti in biologia. Una riflessione critica su adattamento, struttura, specie. Milano: Franco Angeli.

Keywords: adaptationism • essentialism • individuals • morphogenesis • species • structuralism • systematics.

Ferguson, S. 2002. Methodology in Evolutionary Psychology. Biology and Philosophy 17(5): #.

Keywords: adaptationism • evolutionary psychology • methodology.

Godfrey-Smith, P. 2001. Three kinds of adaptationism. In Orzack/Sober, Adaptationism and Optimality, #—#.

Keyword: adaptationism.

Godfrey-Smith, P. 1999. Adaptationism and the power of selection. Biology and Philosophy 14: 181—194.

Keywords: adaptationism • natural selection.

Gould, S.J./Lewontin, R.C. 1979. The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm: A critique of the adaptationist programme. Proceedings of the Royal Society London B. 205: 581—598. [cc]

Reprinted in Sober, 1984. Conceptual Issues in Evolutionary Biology, #—#. [cc]

Keywords: adaptationism • Panglossian paradigm • research strategies • spandrels.

Keeley, B.L. 1999. Fixing content and function in neurobiological systems: The neuroethology of electroreception. Biology and Philosophy 14: 395—430. [abstract][pdf.]

Keywords: adaptationism • Dennett • electric fish • electroreception • evolutionary function • indeterminism • mental content • neuroethology • sensory modality • underdetermination.

Lewontin, R.C. 1978. Adaptation. Scientific American 239(3): 157—169.

Keywords: adaptation • adaptationism.

Lewontin, R.C. 1979. Sociobiology as an adaptationist program. Behavioral Science 24: 5—14.

Keywords: adaptationism • sociobiology.

Lewontin, R.C. 1983. Elementary errors about evolution. Review of [Dennett 1983]. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 6: 367.

Keywords: adaptationism • Dennett.

Mayr, E. 1983. How to carry out the adaptationist program. American Naturalist 121: 324—333.

Keywords: adaptationism • spandrels.

Miller, G.F. 2000. Mental traits as fitness indicators: Expanding evolutionary psychology's adaptationism. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 907: 62—74. [abstract]

Keywords: adaptationism • animal signaling theory • evolutionary psychology • fitness • mental traits • modularity • natural selection • sexual selection • stabilizing selection.

Orzack, S.H./Sober, E.R., eds. 2001. Adaptationism and Optimality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Contributors, Description, and Chapter Contents • TOC

Keywords: adaptationism • optimality.

Resnik, D. 1996. Adaptationism: Hypothesis or heuristic? Biology and Philosophy 12: 39—50. [abstract][p]

Keywords: adaptationsism • heuristics • natural selection • selectionism.

Sterelny, K. 1996. Explanatory pluralism in evolutionary biology. Biology and Philosophy 11: 193—214.

Keywords: adaptationism • avatars • competition • evolution • explanation • macroevolution • optimality • reductionism • species selection • species sorting.

Symons, D. 1992. On the use and misuse of Darwinism in the study of human behavior. In Barkow/Cosmides/Tooby, The Adapted Mind, 137—159. [abstract]

Keywords: adaptationism • evolutionary psychology.

Weber, M. 1996. Evolutionary plasticity in prokaryotes: A Panglossian view. Biology and Philosophy 11: 67—88.

Keywords: adaptationism • evolutionary plasticity • prokaryotes.