Darwin's Legacy: What Evolution Means Today

Darwin's Legacy: What Evolution Means Today

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1-150

  Dupré, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Charles Darwin; Culture; Evolutionary psychology; Human behaviour; Human nature; Humanity; Language; Natural world; Religion; Theory of evolution

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EID: 84922523737     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199284214.001.0001     Document Type: Book

References (64)

1. Karl Popper's most famous work on methodology is The Logic of Scientific Discovery (London: Hutchinson, 1959).
2. The discussion of shrikes and the use to which it is put are drawn from David Buss, The Evolution of Desire (New York: Basic Books, 1994).
3. Also referred to is Ben Greenstein, The Fragile Male (New York: Birch Lane Press, 1993).
4. There are several good general introductions to the theory of evolution. John Maynard Smith, The Theory of Evolution (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1977), is among the best.
5. A more philosophical treatment, which goes into considerable depth on the topic of natural selection, is Elliott Sober, The Nature of Selection (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1984).
6. Sober's book develops a pluralistic view of the units of selection. More recently he has been involved in the attempt to rehabilitate the importance of group selection, Elliott Sober and David Sloan Wilson, Unto Others: The Evolution of Altruism (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998).
7. Richard Dawkins's classic exposition of gene selectionism is The Selfish Gene (Oxford:Oxford University Press, 1976). He has subsequently written a series of extremely engaging and readable books on evolution.
8. The classic source for developmental systems theory is Susan Oyama, The Ontogeny of Information (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985).
9. This is not an easy book, however. A lucid overview can be found in P. E. Griffiths and R. D. Gray, 'Developmental Systems and Evolutionary Explanations', Journal of Philosophy, 91 (1994), 277-304.
10. A recent and excellent book that develops ideas from this tradition is Lenny Moss, What Genes Can't Do (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2002).
11. Punctuated equilibrium theory was introduced by Niles Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould in 'Punctuated Equilibria: An Alternative to Phyletic Gradualism', in T. Schopf (ed.), Models in Paleobiology (San Francisco: Freeman, 1972).
12. A standard source for the classic model of explanation by derivation is Carl G. Hempel, Philosophy of Natural Science (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1968/1999).
13. David Hume's philosophy is approached most easily through his An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748).
14. A great deal of sceptical thought about the possibility of providing detailed adaptive explanations derives from Richard Lewontin, The Genetic Basis of Evolutionary Change (New York: Columbia University Press, 1974).
15. A classic article on the topic is S. J. Gould and R. C. Lewontin, 'The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme', Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, 205 (1979), 581-98.
16. The distinction between adaptation and exaptation was introduced by S. J. Gould and Elizabeth Vrba, 'Exaptation-a Missing Term in the Science of Form', Paleobiology, 8 (1982), 4-15.
17. Gould on the panda's thumb can be found in The Panda's Thumb (New York: Norton, 1980). Other delightful essays illustrating the general theme can be found in this volume and other volumes of Gould's essays.
18. The classic source for the use of models in science is Mary Hesse, Models and Analogies in Science (South Bend, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1966).
19. For a recent development of the view of science as involving the construction of models rather than the discovery of laws, see Ronald Giere, Science Without Laws (Chicago:University of Chicago Press, 1999).
20. There have been a number of excellent books published on Darwin in recent years. The one that most specifically addresses his relation to religion is James Moore, The Darwin Legend (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1995).
21. For Darwin's account of himself, see The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, ed. N. Barlow (London: Collins, 1958).
22. William James's pragmatic account of belief is presented in his essay 'The Will to Believe', in a collection of essays of the same name (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1979).
23. The classic statement of the argument from design is William Paley, Natural Theology (1802).
24. Hume's critique of this argument is in Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (1779).
25. An example of the new version of the design argument that goes under the banner of intelligent design is William A. Dembski, Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science and Theology (Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 1999).
26. Inference to the best explanation is discussed by Peter Lipton, Inference to the Best Explanation (London: Routledge, 2003).
27. The works discussed in the text reconciling evolution and Christianity are Michael Ruse, Can a Darwinian be a Christian? (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001)
28. Gould, Rocks of Ages (New York: Vintage Books, 2002).
29. Stuart Kauffman's views on self-organization are most accessible in At Home in the Universe (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995).
30. A good discussion of current ideas on the origin of life can be found in John Maynard Smith and Eors Szathmary, The Origins of Life: From the Birth of Life to the Origins of Language (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).
31. René Descartes' dualism is described in Meditations on First Philosophy (1642).
32. A classic and energetic rebuttal is Gilbert Ryle, The Concept of Mind (London:Hutchinson, 1949).
33. A rare contemporary defender of the view that non-human animals lack consciousness is Peter Carruthers, 'Brute Experience', Journal of Philosophy, 86 (1989), 258-69.
34. My own opposing view can be found in Humans and Other Animals (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), Ch. 10.
35. Difficulties with the general conception of life after death are discussed by Bernard Williams, Problems of the Self (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973), Chs. 1-5.
36. Communication in Vervet monkeys is described by Dorothy Cheney and Robert Seyfarth, How Monkeys See the World (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1990).
37. Experiments on teaching language to great apes are discussed in my Humans and Other Animals, Ch. 11, which includes citations to some of the most important original research.
38. A readable account of the evolution of language is Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1995).
39. Thomas Kuhn's classic work is The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Chicago:University of Chicago Press, 1962).
40. E. O. Wilson's opus magnus was Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (Cambridge, Mass.:Harvard University Press, 1975).
41. Sustained critiques were provided in Richard Lewontin, Steven Rose, and Leon Kamin, Not in our Genes: Biology, Ideology, and Human Nature (New York: Pantheon, 1984);
42. Philip Kitcher, Vaulting Ambition: Socio-biology and the Quest for Human Nature (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1985).
43. The history of the controversy over sociobiology is well related by Ullica Segerstrale, Defenders of the Truth (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).
44. Key documents, including the initial attacks on Wilson by the Sociology Study Group of Science for the People and Wilson's replies, can be found in Arthur Caplan (ed.), The Sociobiology Debate (New York: Harper and Row, 1978).
45. A definitive statement of the aims of evolutionary psychology is Jerome Barkow, Leda Cosmides, and John Tooby (eds.), The Adapted Mind (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992), especially the very long introductory essay by Tooby and Cosmides.
46. A popular treatment is Steven Pinker, How the Mind Works (New York: Norton, 1997).
47. Extensive criticism can be found in Hilary Rose and Steven Rose (eds.), Alas, Poor Darwin (London: Jonathan Cape, 2000)
48. Human Nature and the Limits of Science (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001).
49. The reference in the text to Dennett is to Daniel Dennett's Darwin's Dangerous Idea (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995).
50. A similar appropriation of theological thought can be seen in the reference to Paley in Richard Dawkins's title, The Blind Watch-maker (New York: Norton, 1986).
51. The status of and evidence for human behavioural genetics is very well explained by Jonathan Kaplan, The Limits and Lies of Human Genetic Research (London: Routledge, 2000) which also provides forceful criticism of many unwarranted claims that derive from this source.
52. Interest in evolutionary psychology's speculations on rape have been stirred up by Randy Thornhill and Craig Palmer, A Natural History of Rape: Biological Bases of Sexual Coercion (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2000).
53. A range of excellent rebuttals can be found in Cheryl Brown Travis (ed.), Evolution, Gender, and Rape (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2003).
54. The genetic basis for racial difference, or lack of it, is discussed in Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man (New York: Norton, 1996)
55. Lewontin, Rose, and Kamin, Not in our Genes. The essay by Pigliucci and Kaplan can be found at.
56. The most notorious recent source for claims about the correlation of race and IQ is Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray, The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994).
57. A powerful critique of their argument is Ned Block, 'How Heritability Misleads about Race', Cognition, 56 (1995), 90-128.
58. See also discussion in Kaplan, The Limits and Lies of Human Genetic Research.
59. Anne Fausto-Sterling, Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality (New York: Basic Books, 2000) gives an illuminating discussion of the enforcement of sexual dimorphism.
60. The economic analysis of sex roles in terms of parental investment is generally attributed to Robert Trivers, 'Parental Investment and Sexual Selection', in B. Campbell (ed.), Sexual Selection and the Descent of Man (London: Heinemann, 1972).
61. The person who has most energetically attempted to investigate the gender differences predicted by evolutionary psychology is David Buss, The Evolution of Desire (New York:Basic Books, 1994).
62. The project is criticized in greater detail in my Human Nature and the Limits of Science (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001).
63. A summary of bonobo culture by the eminent primatologist Frans de Waal can be found at. (This was originally published in Scientific American (March 1995), 82-8.)
64. Reductionism is criticized in detail in my The Disorder of Things: Metaphysical Foundations of the Disunity of Science (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1993).