Wednesday, July 23, 2014
On the mythology of natural selection: Part VII. Phenogenetic drift
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W e are trying in this series of posts (see this week and last, beginning with Part I here ) to enumerate a few ways in which organized trai...
Tuesday, July 22, 2014
On the mythology of natural selection: Part VI. Sexual and Group selection
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W e have been focusing in this series on forms of selection that are generally unfamiliar, and perhaps a challenge to the usual idea of evol...
Monday, July 21, 2014
On the mythology of natural selection: Part V. Niche construction
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T he usual Darwinian presentation of adaptive life assigns essentially all of it to natural selection, in which, going back essentially unal...
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Friday, July 18, 2014
On the mythology of natural selection: Part IV. Functional selection
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N ot all evolutionary change has to be based on overpopulation and resulting vicious competition for scarce resources in a cruel and bloody ...
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Thursday, July 17, 2014
On the mythology of natural selection: Part III. Organismal selection
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T he entrenched idea of natural selection that is clear from the way that most people have discussed the subject, from Darwin to the present...
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Wednesday, July 16, 2014
On the mythology of natural selection. Part II: Classical Darwinism
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D arwin didn't invent the idea of natural selection as a way of adaptive advance for traits in organisms that better suited their envir...
Tuesday, July 15, 2014
More on IRBs and restraint on science
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S tories over the last couple of days lead us to interrupt our series on natural selection with this brief post on research and ethical conu...
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