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    Darwinian Evolution and Classical Liberalism: Theories in Tension.Stephen Dilley (ed.) - 2013 - Lanham: Lexington Books.
    Darwinian Evolution and Classical Liberalism brings together a collection of new essays that examine the multifaceted ferment between Darwinian biology and classical liberalism.
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    Darwinian Evolution and Classical Liberalism: Theories in Tension.Logan Paul Gage, Bruce L. Gordon, Shawn E. Klein, Peter Lawler, Roger Masters, Angus Menuge, Michael J. White, Jay W. Richards, Timothy Sandefur, Richard Weikart, John West & Benjamin Wiker (eds.) - 2013 - Lanham: Lexington Books.
    Darwinian Evolution and Classical Liberalism brings together a collection of new essays that examine the multifaceted ferment between Darwinian biology and classical liberalism.
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    Darwinian Evolution Across the Disciplines.Michael R. Dietrich, C. Robertson McClung & Mark A. McPeek - 2001 - History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 23 (3/4):339 - 340.
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    Pre-Darwinian Evolution Before LUCA.Shiping Tang - 2020 - Biological Theory 15 (4):175-179.
    If the coming of the last universal cellular ancestor marks the crossing of the “Darwinian Threshold”, pre-LUCA evolution must have been pre-Darwinian. But how did pre-Darwinian evolution actually operate? Bringing together and extending insights from both earlier and more recent contributions, this essay advances three principal arguments regarding the pre-Darwinian evolution. First, in the pre-Darwinian epoch, survival essentially meant persistence within the prebiotic system, and it depended mostly on chemical variation and interaction. (...)
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  5. Darwinian evolution of mutations.Ronald A. Fisher - 1922 - The Eugenics Review 14 (1):31.
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    Organizational Ecology: No Darwinian Evolution After All. A Rejoinder to Lemos.Markus Scholz & Thomas A. C. Reydon - 2010 - Philosophy of the Social Sciences 40 (3):504-512.
    In a recent article we argued that organizational ecology is not a Darwinian research program. John Lemos criticized our argumentation on various counts. Here we reply to some of Lemos’s criticisms.
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    Sequence complexity in Darwinian evolution.Christoph Adami - 2002 - Complexity 8 (2):49-56.
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    Darwinian evolution and scientific revolutions: Chris Haufe: How knowledge grows: the evolutionary development of scientific practice. Cambridge: The MIT press, 2022, 352 pp, $50 PB. [REVIEW]David Peter Wallis Freeborn - 2023 - Metascience 33 (1):35-38.
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    Feedback and chaos in Darwinian evolution Part II. Numerical modeling.Douglas S. Robertson & Michael C. Grant - 1996 - Complexity 2 (2):18-30.
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    Changing Concepts of Darwinian Evolution.Marjorie Grene - 1981 - The Monist 64 (2):195-213.
    Evolutionary theory is a tempting field for non-biologists, partly, I suppose, because it seems to impinge on such large questions about human and/or animal nature, “the meaning of life” and such, and for philosophers because of its tantalizing conceptual structure. Darwinian evolutionary theory in particular—the orthodoxy of the present and recurrently the most prestigious theory on and off throughout the past century—Darwinian evolutionary theory seems both remarkably simple and persistent in its basic principles, and yet remarkably flexible, not (...)
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    Beyond Lamarckism: plasticity in Darwinian evolution, 1890-1970.Laurent Loison - 2025 - New York, NY: Routledge.
    Over the past twenty years, the role of phenotypic plasticity in Darwinian evolution has become a hotly debated topic among biologists and philosophers of science. For instance, in the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, a new form of evolutionary theory that aims to include processes not taken into account by standard theory (the Modern Synthesis), the question of the remarkable plasticity of living beings is central. Beyond Lamarckism, Plasticity in Darwinian Evolution shows that the evolutionary impact of plasticity (...)
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    Julian Huxley on Darwinian evolution: A snapshot of a theory: Julian Huxley: Evolution the modern synthesis: The definitive edition. Edited by Massimo Pigliucci and Gerd B. Müller. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2010, ix+770pp, US$35.00 PB. [REVIEW]Michael Ruse - 2010 - Metascience 20 (2):329-333.
    Julian Huxley on Darwinian evolution: A snapshot of a theory Content Type Journal Article DOI 10.1007/s11016-010-9499-8 Authors Michael Ruse, Department of Philosophy, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32303, USA Journal Metascience Online ISSN 1467-9981 Print ISSN 0815-0796.
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    Theory? Jay W. Richards.Must Classical Liberals Also Embrace Darwinian - 2013 - In Stephen Dilley (ed.), Darwinian Evolution and Classical Liberalism: Theories in Tension. Lanham: Lexington Books.
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  14. The Role of Randomness in Darwinian Evolution.Andreas Wagner - 2012 - Philosophy of Science 79 (1):95-119.
    Historically, one of the most controversial aspects of Darwinian evolution has been the prominent role that randomness and random change play in it. Most biologists agree that mutations in DNA have random effects on fitness. However, fitness is a highly simplified scalar representation of an enormously complex phenotype. Challenges to Darwinian thinking have focused on such complex phenotypes. Whether mutations affect such complex phenotypes randomly is ill understood. Here I discuss three very different classes of well-studied molecular (...)
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  15. Cultural evolution is not equivalent to Darwinian evolution.Dwight W. Read - 2006 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 29 (4):361-361.
    Darwinian evolution, defined as evolution arising from selection based directly on the properties of individuals, does not account for cultural constructs providing the organizational basis of human societies. The difficulty with linking Darwinian evolution to structural properties of cultural constructs is exemplified with kinship terminologies, a cultural construct that structures and delineates the domain of kin in human societies. (Published Online November 9 2006).
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    Feedback and chaos in Darwinian evolution:Part I. Theoretical considerations.Douglas S. Robertson & Michael C. Grant - 1996 - Complexity 2 (1):10-14.
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    Nongenetic and non-Darwinian evolution.Anatol Rapoport - 1994 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 17 (4):634-634.
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    The Eclipse of Darwinism: Anti-Darwinian Evolution Theories in the Decades around 1900.Peter J. Bowler - 1984 - Journal of the History of Biology 17 (3):433-434.
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    Sex, gender, ethics and the Darwinian evolution of mankind: 150 years of Darwin's 'Descent of man'.Michel Veuille (ed.) - 2024 - New York, NY: Routledge.
    Sex, Gender, Ethics, and the Darwinian Evolution of Humanity examines the impact of Darwin's 'Descent of Man' on contemporary biology and the humanities. Its publication in 1871 was a founding event in anthropology. Its content was primarily concerned with the development of sexual life, social life, and intellectual life, not only as outcomes of evolution, but as components that have actively intermixed over time with the evolutionary mechanism of natural selection. The stamp of Darwinism on modern thought (...)
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    Is domestic breeding evidence for (or against) Darwinian evolution?Richard A. Richards - 2005 - In Peter Achinstein (ed.), Scientific Evidence: Philosophical Theories & Applications. The Johns Hopkins University Press.
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    Evolution and Human Behaviour: An Introduction to Darwinian Anthropology.Alexander Alland - 2008 - Routledge.
    Originally published in 1967. This reprints the second edition of 1973, revised and expanded. Evolution and Human Behaviour considers man’s biological and cultural development within the framework of Darwinian evolution. Rejecting analogue models of biological evolution common in the social sciences, the author shows how the theory of biological evolution applies to the study of contemporary human behaviour.
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  22. The struggle for life and the conditions of existence : two interpretations of Darwinian evolution.D. M. Walsh - 2011 - In Martin Brinkworth & Friedel Weinert (eds.), Evolution 2.0: implications of Darwinism in philosophy and the social and natural sciences. New York: Springer.
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    A Darwinian theory of cultural evolution can promote an evolutionary synthesis for the social sciences.Alex Mesoudi - 2007 - Biological Theory 2 (3):263-275.
    The evolutionary synthesis of the 1930s and 1940s integrated the study of biological microevolution and biological macroevolution into the theoretically consistent and hugely productive field of evolutionary biology. A similar synthesis has yet to occur for the study of culture, and the social sciences remain fragmented and theoretically incompatible. Here, it is suggested that a Darwinian theory of cultural evolution can promote such a synthesis. Earlier non-Darwinian theories of cultural evolution, such as progress theories, lacked key (...)
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    Evolution and the Naked Truth: Darwinian Approach to Philosophy.Gonzalo Munevar - 2020 - Routledge.
    Published in 1998, the main aim of this book is to use a naturalistic, evolutionary approach to solve some of the most important problems in philosophy. The first two problems come from the philosophy of science: the problem of rationality of science and the problem of truth in science. In presenting the first problem, the author argues that the views of Kuhn and Feyerabend do create a very serious challenge to traditional epistemology, however, if the assumption of individual rationality is (...)
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  25. Evolution of Sentience, Consciousness and Language Viewed From a Darwinian and Purposive Perspective.Nicholas Maxwell - 2001 - In The Human World in the Physical Universe: Consciousness, Free Will, and Evolution. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 162-201.
    In this article I give a Darwinian account of how sentience, consciousness and language may have evolved. It is argued that sentience and consciousness emerge as brains control purposive actions in new ways. A key feature of this account is that Darwinian theory is interpreted so as to do justice to the purposive character of living things. According to this interpretation, as evolution proceeds, purposive actions play an increasingly important role in the mechanisms of evolution until, (...)
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    Evolution and healing: the new science of Darwinian medicine.Randolph M. Nesse - 1996 - London: Phoenix. Edited by George C. Williams.
    The first ever description of how evolutionary principles can be applied to questions of health and sickness.
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    Evolution and Free Will: A Defense of Darwinian Non–naturalism.John Lemos - 2002 - Metaphilosophy 33 (4):468-482.
    In his recent book The Natural Selection of Autonomy, Bruce Waller defends a view that he calls “natural autonomy.” This view holds that human beings possess a kind of autonomy that we share with nonhuman animals, a capacity to explore alternative courses of action, but an autonomy that cannot support moral responsibility. He also argues that this natural autonomy can provide support for the ethical principle of noninterference. I argue that to support the ethical principle of noninterference Waller needs either (...)
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    If we are all cultural Darwinians what’s the fuss about? Clarifying recent disagreements in the field of cultural evolution.Alberto Acerbi & Alex Mesoudi - 2015 - Biology and Philosophy 30 (4):481-503.
    Cultural evolution studies are characterized by the notion that culture evolves accordingly to broadly Darwinian principles. Yet how far the analogy between cultural and genetic evolution should be pushed is open to debate. Here, we examine a recent disagreement that concerns the extent to which cultural transmission should be considered a preservative mechanism allowing selection among different variants, or a transformative process in which individuals recreate variants each time they are transmitted. The latter is associated with the (...)
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  29. Cultural Evolution and Social Epistemology: A Darwinian Alternative to Steve Fuller’s Theodicy of Science.William T. Lynch - 2017 - Social Epistemology 31 (2):224-234.
    Key to Steve Fuller’s recent defense of intelligent design is the claim that it alone can explain why science is even possible. By contrast, Fuller argues that Darwinian evolutionary theory posits a purposeless universe leaving humans with no motivation to study science and no basis for modifying an underlying reality. I argue that this view represents a retreat from insights about knowledge within Fuller’s own program of social epistemology. I argue for a Darwinian picture of science as a (...)
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    The Eclipse of Darwinism: Anti-Darwinian Evolution Theories in the Decades around 1900 by Peter J. Bowler. [REVIEW]John Farley - 1984 - Isis 75:404-405.
  31. Evolution and Human Behavior: Darwinian Perspectives on Human Nature.Mark Fedyk - 2011 - Philosophical Psychology 24 (5):723 - 726.
    Evolution and Human Behavior: Darwinian Perspectives on Human Nature John CartwrightCambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008448 pages, ISBN: 0262533049 (pbk); $36.00John Cartwright's book provides a valuable...
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    Peter Bowler, The eclipse of Darwinism: Anti-Darwinian evolution theories in the decades around 1900. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983. Pp. xi + 291. ISBN 0-8018-2932-1. $25.00. [REVIEW]Bernard Norton - 1985 - British Journal for the History of Science 18 (2):245-245.
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    Darwinian cultural evolution rivals genetic evolution.Mark Pagel - 2006 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 29 (4):360-360.
    The study of culture from an evolutionary perspective has been slowed by resistance from some quarters of anthropology, a poor appreciation of the fidelity of cultural transmission, and misunderstandings about human intentionality. (Published Online November 9 2006).
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    Evolution Born of Moisture: Analogies and Parallels Between Anaximander’s Ideas on Origin of Life and Man and Later Pre-Darwinian and Darwinian Evolutionary Concepts.Radim Kočandrle & Karel Kleisner - 2013 - Journal of the History of Biology 46 (1):103-124.
    This study focuses on the origin of life as presented in the thought of Anaximander of Miletus but also points to some parallel motifs found in much later conceptions of both the pre-Darwinian German romantic science and post-Darwinian biology. According to Anaximander, life originated in the moisture associated with earth (mud). This moist environment hosted the first living creatures that later populated the dry land. In these descriptions, one can trace the earliest hints of the notion of environmental (...)
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    Evolution and design: The Darwinian view of evolution is a scientific fact and not an ideology.Peter Schuster - 2005 - Complexity 11 (1):12-15.
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  36. Evolution and the Naked Truth: A Darwinian Approach to Philosophy. By Gonzalo Munevar.N. Gray - 2001 - The European Legacy 6 (5):669-669.
     
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  37. Darwinian spectacles and other 'ways of seeing' evolution.Craig Millar & David Lambert - 2013 - In Brian C. Goodwin, David Lambert, Chris Chetland & Craig Millar (eds.), The intuitive way of knowing: a tribute to Brian Goodwin. Edinburgh: Floris Books.
     
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  38. The Darwinian view of culture: Alex Mesoudi: Cultural evolution: how Darwinian theory can explain human culture and synthesize the social sciences. University of Chicago Press, 2011.Tim Lewens - 2012 - Biology and Philosophy 27 (5):745-753.
    Alex Mesoudi’s book shows cultural evolution to be a mature field, which has already illuminated many instances of cultural change. Mesoudi’s presentation of the discipline nonetheless invites three objections. First, the culture concept it makes use of is not clearly defined; second, Mesoudi’s historical argument which looks back to the modern synthesis in order to predict an analogous synthesis in the social sciences is flawed; third, Mesoudi’s understanding of the positions held by leading figures within social science is shaky.
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  39. A Darwinian Process: The Molecular Evolution of Enzymes.Joan Bertran - 2008 - Pensamiento 64 (242):771.
     
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    The Darwinian Rhetoric of Science in Petr Kropotkin's Mutual Aid. A Factor of Evolution.Riccardo Nicolosi - 2020 - Berichte Zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 43 (1):141-159.
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    Evolution: The Darwinian theory of social change, an homage to Donald T. Campbell.Peter Richerson - manuscript
    One of the earliest and most influential papers applying Darwinian theory to human cultural evolution was Donald T. Campbell’s paper “Variation and Selective Retention in Sociocultural Systems.” Campbell’s programmatic essay appeared as a chapter in a book entitled Social Change in Developing Areas (Barringer et al., 1965). It sketched a very ambitious project to apply Darwinian principles to the study of the evolution of human behavior. His essential theses were four.
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    The evolution of emotions in humans: A darwinian–durkheimian analysis.Jonathan H. Turner - 1996 - Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 26 (1):1–33.
    Alexandra Maryanski's cladistic analysis of the last common ancestor to humans and apes reveals biological propensities in hominoids for autonomy, individualism, and weak-tie formation. The evolution of emotional capacities in humans, and the neuroanatomical bases for these capacities, are viewed as representing one of the many compensatory mechanisms for overcoming the low sociality contained in humans’ape ancestry. Speculation on the selection forces involved in hominids’growing capacity to use complex arrays of emotions for mobilizing energy, attuning, sanctioning, moral coding, exchanging (...)
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    A darwinian perspective: right premises, questionable conclusion. A commentary on Niall Shanks and Rebecca Pyles' "Evolution and medicine: the long reach of "Dr. Darwin"".Melnick Ronald & Vineis Paolo - 2008 - Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 3 (1):6.
    As Dobzhansky wrote, nothing in biology makes sense outside the context of the evolutionary theory, and this truth has not been sufficiently explored yet by medicine. We comment on Shanks and Pyles' recently published paper, Evolution and medicine: the long reach of "Dr. Darwin", and discuss some recent advancements in the application of evolutionary theory to carcinogenesis. However, we disagree with Shanks and Pyles about the usefulness of animal experiments in predicting human hazards. Based on the darwinian observation (...)
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  44. Darwinian spaces: Peter Godfrey-Smith on selection and evolution.Kim Sterelny - 2011 - Biology and Philosophy 26 (4):489-500.
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    Selfish Sounds and Linguistic Evolution: A Darwinian Approach to Language Change.Nikolaus Ritt - 2004 - Cambridge University Press.
    This book takes an exciting perspective on language change, by explaining it in terms of Darwin's evolutionary theory. Looking at a number of developments in the history of sounds and words, Nikolaus Ritt shows how the constituents of language can be regarded as mental patterns, or 'memes', which copy themselves from one brain to another when communication and language acquisition take place. Memes are both stable in that they transmit faithfully from brain to brain, and active in that their success (...)
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    Darwinian language evolution.Helmut Weiß - 2021 - Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 3 (1):73-82.
    Haider’s target paper presents a fresh and inspiring look at the nature of grammar change. The overall impression of his approach is very convincing, especially his insistence on the point that language was not selected for communication – hence it is no adaptation to communicative use. Nevertheless, I think three topics are in need of further discussion and elaboration. First, I will discuss the question whether Haider’s conception of Darwinian selection covers all aspects of grammar change. Second, I will (...)
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    Why the Darwinian Theory of Evolution Through Natural Selection is Relevant to Today’s Moral Issues.Michael Ruse - 2023 - Metatheoria – Revista de Filosofía E Historia de la Ciencia 14 (1):1-15.
    Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution through natural selection, explaining geographical distributions and the fossil record, is rightly regarded as one of the greatest scientific theories of all time, taking its place alongside Isaac Newton’s theory of gravitational attraction, explaining the Copernican heliocentric world picture. There is, however, a tendency to think that Darwin’s work is finished. It belongs to Victorian history rather than as something that has crucial social relevance today. This essay shows how mistaken it is to make (...)
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  48. Testing the “(Neo-)Darwinian” Principles against Reticulate Evolution: How Variation, Adaptation, Heredity and Fitness, Constraints and Affordances, Speciation, and Extinction Surpass Organisms and Species.Nathalie Gontier - 2020 - Information 11 (7):352.
    Variation, adaptation, heredity and fitness, constraints and affordances, speciation, and extinction form the building blocks of the (Neo-)Darwinian research program, and several of these have been called “Darwinian principles.” Here, we suggest that caution should be taken in calling these principles Darwinian because of the important role played by reticulate evolutionary mechanisms and processes in also bringing about these phenomena. Reticulate mechanisms and processes include symbiosis, symbiogenesis, lateral gene transfer, infective heredity mediated by genetic and organismal mobility, (...)
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  49. Imagining the Darwinian revolution: historical narratives of evolution from the nineteenth century to the present.Ian Hesketh (ed.) - 2022 - Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press.
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    “Intelligent” evolution and neo-Darwinian straw men.Elisabeth A. Lloyd - 1990 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 13 (1):81-82.
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