Darwinism

SUPHİ ETHEM BEY'İN DARVENİZM KİTABI ve BİR ELEŞTİRİ

by İ. Arda Odabaşı

Darwin in Literature and Science

by Martin Willis

This is the bibliography for my work on Darwin in Literature and Science for my forthcoming Readers Guide to... more This is the bibliography for my work on Darwin in Literature and Science for my forthcoming Readers Guide to Literature and Science. Any suggestions appreciated!

Commemorative Reconsiderations

by Marion Endt-Jones

book review in Art History, vol. 34, issue 5, November 2011, pp. 1053-1057

Did Veblen Generalize Darwinism (And Why Does It Matter)?

by Cyril Hédoin

published in the 'Journal of Economic Issues'"

Popular Evolutionism: Scientific, Legal and Literary Discourse in Gaskell's Wives and Daughters

by Phoebe Poon

Published in Elizabeth Gaskell, Victorian Culture and the Art of Fiction: Essays for the Bicentenary, ed. Sandro Jung (Academia Press, 2010).

Popular Evolutionism: Scientific, Legal and Literary Discourse in Gaskell's Wives and Daughters

by Phoebe Poon

Published in Elizabeth Gaskell, Victorian Culture and the Art of Fiction: Essays for the Bicentenary, ed. Sandro Jung (Academia Press, 2010).

Intelligence as the plasticity of instinct: George J. Romanes and Darwin's earthworms

by Federico Morganti

published in "Theoretical Biology Forum", vol. 104 (2011), n. 2, pp. 29-46.

Darwin´s pigeons and the evolution of columbiforms: recapitulation of ancient genes

by Juan Martínez-Gómez

Acta Zoológica Mexicana (n.s.) 25(3): 719-741.  2009.

To commemorate the sesquicentennial of Charles Darwin´s “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection”, we... more To commemorate the sesquicentennial of Charles Darwin´s “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection”, we address an essential topic in this publication. Domestic pigeons were extremely important in shaping Darwin’s theory of evolution: pigeons featured prominently not only in his “Origin of Species”, but also in his treatise on “Variation under Domestication”, in his “Descent of Man” and finally in his “Expression of Emotions”. Darwin saw the process of domestication as solid evidence demonstrating the power of selection. He argued convincingly that all domestic pigeon breeds (some 150 in his day) descended from one ancestral species, the Rock Dove (Columba livia), and that from this single species, humans selected directionally for colors, sizes, shapes, peculiarities of bill shape and length, plumage characteristics and voice qualities. While these domestic races achieved remarkable morphological differentiation under selection in the course of human generations, extant genera of pigeons (Columbiformes) have attained similar traits during the course of natural selection in the wild. We present a comparison of such characters between modern domestic breeds of the Rock Dove, the original Darwin´s Pigeons plus new breeds, and wild pigeon species to encourage further studies on their evolution in the light of molecular techniques not available at Darwin´s time.

Group Adaptation, Formal Darwinism and Contextual Analysis

by Cédric Paternotte

Journal of Evolutionary Biology, forthcoming.
Co-authored with Samir Okasha.

We consider the question: under what circumstances can the concept of adaptation be applied to groups, rather than... more We consider the question: under what circumstances can the concept of adaptation be applied to groups, rather than individuals? Gardner and Grafen (2009) develop a novel approach to this question, building on Grafen's `formal Darwinism' project, which defines adaptation in terms of links between evolutionary dynamics and optimization. They conclude that only clonal groups, and to a lesser extent groups in which reproductive competition is repressed, can be considered as adaptive units. We re-examine the conditions under which the selection-optimization links hold at the group level. We focus on an important distinction between two ways of understanding the links, which have different implications regarding group adaptationism. We show how the formal Darwinism approach can be reconciled with G.C. Williams' famous analysis of group adaptation, and we consider the relationships between group adaptation, the Price equation approach to multi-level selection, and the alternative approach based on contextual analysis.

KAVUR, Boris. Ta pogled na Stephena Jaya Goulda. V: GOULD, Stephen Jay. Za-mera človeka, (Knjižna zbirka Krt, 118). 1. izd. Ljubljana: Krtina, 2000, str. 457-471.

by Boris Kavur

Darwin jako przebrany za wroga przyjaciel religii (recenzja)

by Mateusz Hohol

published in: "Zagadnienia Filozoficzne w Nauce" (Philosophical Problems in Science) 2010, vol. XLVII, pp. 161-165.

Moralność w świetle nauk ewolucyjnych [Morality in the Light of Evolutionary Sciences]

by Mateusz Hohol

published in: "Semina Scientiarum" 2010, no. 9, pp. 132-147.

La “morfologia sottile” in Italia: darwinismo e metodo sperimentale nelle ricerche anatomiche ed embriologiche di Francesco Todaro e Giovan Battista Grassi

by Alessandro Ottaviani

«Giornale critico della filosofia italiana», 76, 1997, pp. 365-396

Tree of life and tree of knowldege

by Dušan Gálik

Original title: Strom života a strom poznania. Published in: Havlík, V. (ed.), Metoda - význam - intence: popperovské motivy v současném analytickém myšlení. Praha: Filosofia, 2003, s. 77-88.

Darwin, evolution and progress

by Dušan Gálik

Original title: Darwin, evolúcia a progresívny vývoj. Published in: Kognice a umělý život IX. Sestavili Jozef Kelemen, Vladimír Kvasnička, Ján Rybár ; recenzenti příspěvků Silvia Gáliková, Dušan Gálik et al. - Opava : Slezská univerzita, 2009, s. 77-82. ISBN 978-80-7248-516-1.

BETWEEN DARWIN AND CULTURE: THE FALSE DILEMMA OF MORALITY

by Mircea-Dan Mitroiu

2010-Evolutionism, creationism, and the endless controversy

by Óscar M. Chaves

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From publication of ‘The origin of the species’, century and half ago, the evolution by means of natural selection... more From publication of ‘The origin of the species’, century and half ago, the evolution by means of natural selection represent one of the most universally accepted scientific theories and Charles Darwin has been recognized as founder of the modern biology. Nevertheless, this theory has been a source of constant controversy between evolutionists and creationists during the last two centuries. This is a debate between persons that intent to arrive to the truth using the brain, the reason, and the objective arguments and persons that try to impose ‘their truth’ to the world invoking supernatural forces that govern everything. In this essay it is mentioned and discusses the main philosophical, psychological, religious, and moral factors behind of this controversy from a scientific perspective. It is concludes that the superstition and the incapacity of the human being to recognized to itself as a ‘finite’ being are the essential elements that have perpetuated this controversy.

Common Ancestry and Natural Selection

by Emanuele Serrelli

AA.VV. (2010). Common Ancestry and Natural Selection in Darwin’s Origin. Online discussion with Elliott Sober, On The Human - A Project of the National Humanities Center, http://onthehuman.org.

The logical independence between common ancestry and natural selection in evolutionary theory is very interesting. The... more The logical independence between common ancestry and natural selection in evolutionary theory is very interesting. The tree of life allows (and tells virtually nothing about) a number of candidate mechanisms and also – I would add – rates of change. I see such logical independence as often reflected in some “divisions of labour” in biological sciences, and in philosophy of biology as well – usually to the detriment, it seems to me, of phylogenetic issues.
Bridging common ancestry and mechanisms of change appears as a fertile ground of reflection, and I think Elliot’s idea of “evidential relatedness” is very helpful. And, if common ancestry and natural selection need each other to shape their own evidence, who came first?

Darwin The Coral of Life

by Emanuele Serrelli

Pievani T, Serrelli E (2009). Il corallo della vita. In Charles Darwin: L'evoluzione della vita, monografia de Il Calendario del Popolo, anno 65, n. 741, Teti Editore, Milano, pp. 3-4. [http://hdl.handle.net/10281/6699]

Charles Darwin began to draw "trees of life" in 1837 (Notebook B, sheet 26), 22 years before The Origin of... more Charles Darwin began to draw "trees of life" in 1837 (Notebook B, sheet 26), 22 years before The Origin of Species, as soon as he got back from his voyage around the world on the Beagle. The "great mass of sparse facts" that he had been gathering and thinking for some years had convinced him that all species could be in relationship with one another, by virtue of ancestors that lived in the past...

Nietzsche and Darwin, Confronting the Janus Head

by James Mensch