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Fun and Games in Fantasyland
Daniel Dennett commentary on Fodor, “Against Darwinism” January 29, 2007
Women are getting more beautiful - Times Online
“For women, looks are much less important in a man than his ability to look after her when she is pregnant and nursing, periods when women are vulnerable to predators. Historically this has meant rich men tend to have more wives and many children. So the pressure is on men to be successful.”
The Invisible Hand, Trumped by Darwin? - NYTimes.com
The competitive forces that mold business behavior are like the forces of natural selection that molded elk. In each case, we see instances of socially benign conduct. But in neither can we safely presume that individual and social interests coincide.
Darwin’s Dangerous Idea | Open Culture
Why did so many find Charles Darwin’s concept of natural selection so subversive and disconcerting straight from the beginning? American philosopher Daniel Dennett explains.
Natural Selection
Natural selection is a very efficient, predictable mechanism of evolution, illustrating:
* how species adapt to their environment
* the reproductive success of a species
* design in nature
* evidence of evolution in action, e.g., antibiotic resistance
(How Evolution Works (ActionBioscience))
On Fodor on Darwin on Evolution (discussion)
I would like to invite discussion on my paper, On Fodor on Darwin On Evolution, which is a critique of Jerry Fodor's Hugues Leblanc Lectures at UQAM on "What Darwin Got Wrong" (Fodor, forthcoming; Fodor&Piatelli-Palmarini). Reponses follow.
A Skeptic's Take on the Public Misunderstanding of Darwin
On the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birthday two myths persist about evolution and natural selection (Scientific American)
Mary Midgley: Darwin made it clear that he never meant to exalt selection into a kind of 'universal acid'
Darwin made it clear that he never meant to exalt selection into a kind of 'universal acid' (guardian.co.uk)
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