Darwin and after

New Left Review

Volumn , Issue 63, 2010, Pages 91-113

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References (44)

1. Edward O. Wilson, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, Cambridge, ma 1975.
2. Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, Cambridge, ma 1998.
3. See, respectively, Daniel Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life, London 1996.
4. David Hull, Science as a Process: An Evolutionary Account of the Social and Conceptual Development of Science, Chicago 1988.
5. Peter Richerson and Robert Boyd, Not by Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution, Chicago 2005.
6. See W. G. Runciman, "The Triumph" of Capitalism as a Topic in the Theory of Social Selection', nlr 1/210 March-April 1995.
7. see also Herbert Gintis, The Bounds of Reason: Game Theory and the Unification of the Behavioural Sciences, Princeton 2009.
8. Geoffrey Hodgson, Economics and Evolution, Cambridge 1993.
9. Hilary Rose and Steven Rose, 'The Radicalization of Science', in The Radicalization of Science, London 1976.
10. London Sheila Jasanoff, ed., States of Knowledge: the Co-Production of Science and Social Order, London 2004.
11. 18 June 1862, in Marx-Engels Collected Works, vol. 41, Moscow 1985, p. 380.
12. Jacob Moleschott, 1852, quoted in Donald Fleming's introduction to Jacques Loeb, The Mechanistic Conception of Life [1912], Cambridge, ma 1964.
13. Darwin, On the Origin of Species [1859], Oxford 1996, p. 395.
14. Quoted by Ian Gough, 'Darwinian Evolutionary Theory and the Social Sciences',Twenty-First Century Society, vol. 3, no. 1, 2008, p. 65.
15. Adrian Desmond and James Moore, Darwin's Sacred Cause, London 2009.
16. Darwin to J. D. Hooker, 6 May 1858.
17. cited in J. F. M. Clark, Bugs and the Victorians, New Haven 2009.
18. Although biologists today regard sexual selection as one of the core features of evolutionary theory, and popular writers-especially evolutionary psychologists-accept it unquestioningly, attempts to demonstrate it empirically among, for example, peacocks, have not proved entirely successful. Furthermore, there is evidence that both sexes have other potential sexual strategies. Thus while massively antlered stags are rutting, females may choose to mate quietly with less well-endowed males.
19. Darwin, Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, London 2004, p. 622.
20. Antoinette Brown Blackwell, The Sexes through Nature, New York 1875.
21. The term was coined by William Bateson, though it was the Danish plant biologist Wilhelm Johannsen who had called Mendel's hidden determinants 'genes'.
22. Theodosius Dobzhansky, 'Nothing in Biology Makes Sense except in the Light of Evolution', American Biology Teacher, vol. 35, no. 3, 1973.
23. Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, Oxford 1976.
24. The first results of this endeavour were announced in Science on 20 May 2010.
25. Francis Collins, The Language of Life, London 2010.
26. Susan Oyama, The Ontogeny of Information, Cambridge 1985.
27. Steven Rose, Richard Lewontin and Leo Kamin, Not in Our Genes, London 1984.
28. A process called 'canalization' by Waddington.
29. Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Lewontin, 'The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm', Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Biological Sciences, vol. 205, no. 1161, September 1979.
30. See Simon Conway Morris, Life's Solution, Cambridge 2003.
31. By contrast, Wallace, Darwin's co-proposer of natural selection, in later years demurred from extending the principle to the emergence of humans.
32. Marc Hauser, Moral Minds, London 2006.
33. Wilson, On Human Nature, Cambridge, ma 1979.
34. Steven Pinker, How the Mind Works, London 1998.
35. Ann Arbor Science for the People Editorial Collective, Biology as a Social Weapon, Minneapolis 1977.
36. See for example the series Genes and Gender, edited by Ethel Tobach, Betty Rosoff, Ruth Hubbard, Marion Lowe and Anne Hunter, New York 1978-1994.
37. In Hubbard, Mary Sue Henifin and Barbara Fried, eds, Women Look at Biology Looking at Women, Boston 1979, pp. 7-36.
38. Donna Haraway, Primate Visions, London 1989. Haraway calls these narratives 'stories', whether those of the dominant androcentric and racist primatology or of the new feminist primatology. Welcomed by post-structuralists and post-modernists who denied the very possibility of truth, her account got a hostile reception not just from masculinist but initially also from feminist primatologists. Haraway's epistemological stance is ambiguous, to say the least: having dismissed the hardwon accounts of the primatologists (and her own) as 'stories', she later observes that some stories are better than others.
39. Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, The Woman that Never Evolved, Cambridge, ma 1981.
40. Mothers and Others, Cambridge, ma 2009.
41. Patricia Gowaty, 'Sexual Natures', Signs, vol. 28, no. 3, 2003, pp. 901-21.
42. Robin Dunbar, How Many Friends Does One Person Need?, London 2010.
43. Frans de Waal, Our Inner Ape, New York 2005.
44. Darwin, Voyage of the Beagle, New York 1909, p. 526.