Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace are the two co-discoverers of natural selection (Darwin &
Wallace 1858), though, between the two, Darwin is the principal theorist of the notion whose …

More than two centuries ago, William Paley introduced his famous metaphor of the universe
as a watch made by the Creator. For Paley, the exquisite structure of the universe …

Nature-nurture is unfit to account for the seamless co-determination of behavior by biological
evolution and culture. The environment is the shaping causal factor both in evolutionary …

This paper uses formal Darwinism as elaborated by Alan Grafen to articulate an explanatory
pluralism that casts light upon two strands of controversies running across evolutionary …

Evolutionary theory has proven generally successful in predicting phenotypic changes over
one or a few generations of natural or artificial selection, but fails to predict evolutionary …

Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection is a deceptively simple and elegant set of
explanations for a well-accepted cluster of phenomena. Mayr (1982; see Chapter 1, this …

This is the second of a two-part essay on the history of debates concerning the creativity of
natural selection, from Darwin through the evolutionary synthesis and up to the present. In …

Abstract The Modern Synthesis (or “Neo-Darwinism”), which arose out of the reconciliation
of Darwin's theory of natural selection and Mendel's research on genetics, remains the …

Making Sense of Evolution explores contemporary evolutionary biology, focusing on the
elements of theories—selection, adaptation, and species—that are complex and open to …

It is a great irony to be criticized in a journal with the adventurous title of ''Evolutionary
Intelligence''for using the terms '''cognitive','sentient'and 'thoughtful,'''as Pauline Hogeweg did …