Evolution and the American social sciences: An evolutionary social scientist's view

Politics and the Life Sciences

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 2-11

  Thayer, Bradley A ^a  

^a MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 29144463595     PISSN: 07309384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2990/1471-5457(2004)23[2:EATASS]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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11. Ibid. Pinker, The Blank Slate p. 113.
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15. Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker, p. 13.
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17. Ibid. Daniel C. Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life 1995), p. 82.
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23. quoted in Dobzhansky, "On Some Fundamental Concepts of Darwinian Biology," in Theodosius Dobzhansky, Max K. Hecht, and William C. Steere, eds., Evolutionary Biology: Volume 2 (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1968), p. 31.
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26. Ibid.Mayr E., Toward A New Philosophy of Biology: Observations of An Evolutionist, p. 106.
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31. Mayr, Toward a New Philosophy of Biology, p. 106.
32. François Jacob, "Evolution and Tinkering," Science, Vol. 196 (10 June 1977), pp. 1161-1166, 1163;
33. François Jacob, Of Flies, Mice, and Men, Giselle Weiss, trans. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998).
34. Stephen Jay Gould, The Panda's Thumb (New York: Norton, 1980), pp. 57-58.
35. George C. Williams, Natural Selection: Domains, Levels, and Challenges (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992), p. 79.
36. George C. Williams, The Pony Fish's Glow: And Other Clues to Plan and Purpose in Nature (New York: Basic Books, 1997), p. 17.
37. Ibid. George C. Williams,The Pony Fish's Glow: and Other Clues to Plan and Purpose in Nature p. 17.
38. Ibid.George C. Williams,The Pony Fish's Glow: and Other Clues to Plan and Purpose in Nature, pp. 17-19.
39. Ibid.George C. Williams, p. 19.The Pony Fish's Glow: and Other Clues to Plan and Purpose in Nature
40. Ibid.George C. Williams,The Pony Fish's Glow: and Other Clues to Plan and Purpose in Nature, p. 19.
41. Ibid.George C. Williams,The Pony Fish's Glow: and Other Clues to Plan and Purpose in Nature p. 19.
42. Mayr, Toward a New Philosophy of Biology, p. 151.
43. Ibid. Mayr,Toward a New Philosophy of Biology, p. 151.
44. Ibid. Mayr, Toward a New Philosophy of Biology, p. 130.
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