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Darwinism and Ethics
What bearing should Darwinism (that is, the theory of the origin of species, including the human species, by natural selection) have on ethics (that...
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The Nature, Causes, and Implications of Ethnic Identification
Ethnicity is defined as the process resulting from the interplay of two kinds of social concourses: an inner, intersubjective concourse between the...
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Sources of Spontaneity in Motivated Behavior
In the study of motivated behavior, the question often boils down to the locus and the nature of control of an action. In the eighteenth century, for...
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The Self and Cognition: The Roles of the Self in the Acquisition of Knowledge, and the Role of Cognition in the Development of the Self
In the past several decades there has been a growing interest in applying the general principles and findings of cognitive development to the...
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The Concept of “Self”: An Operational Definition
Cultism is the curse of the thinking classes! There has been no shortage of studies of the self, of individual psychology, of human nature--call it...
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Guanidino Compounds and Hemodialysis
Despite a large number of reports that have appeared recently in regard to guanidino compounds and their role in causing uremia and aggravating renal...
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Systems Analysis of Hormone Action
In this chapter I shall set out the strategies of comprehensive systems analysis of hormone action. The metabolic system will provide the biological...
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Reductionistic Research Strategies and Their Biases in the Units of Selection Controversy
Butler’s satiric comment encapsulates the reductionistic spirit that made Darwinism objectionable to many in his own day, but has fared ever better...
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A Succession of Paradigms in Ecology: Essentialism to Materialism and Probabilism
Lewontin (1974a), in his provocative essay ‘Darwin and Mendel — The Materialist Revolution,’ suggests that by the time On the Origin of Species was...
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On a Possible Relation Between Cultural Transmission and Genetical Evolution
Individuals respond differently to environmental stresses, and often a subpopulation will respond more adaptively than the rest. The analogy with...
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From Causations to Translations: What Biochemists can Contribute to the Study of Behavior
This paper discusses the relationship between observations of phenomena at the behavioral level, and at the biochemical and physiological levels. It...
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Conversation with Silent Patients
In March 1976 the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that Karen Quinlan’s father could be appointed her guardian in order to direct termination of her...
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Minimizing occupational exposure to pesticides: Populations at exposure risk
Synthetic organic pesticides when used properly are of tremendous benefit to man and his environment, but when misused or used carelessly, they may...
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Living in the Future World
Even though there is no attempt in the SPRU work to describe what ‘the’ future will be like, it is still possible to look at some of the main...
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The Fine Structure of the Mammalian Brain
The brains of six mammals drawn on the same scale in Figure 1.1 illustrate the evolutionary development of the brain from the primitive marsupial up...
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Recent Books in Cell Biochemistry and Biology
We hope to include in each volume of the new annual series some detailed comments and surveys of various books and monographs that may be of interest...
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Marketing
Marketing channels for floriculture in the United States were worked out for the first time by Fossum (1950) (Fig. 12–1). Almost 40% of all flowers...
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Biological Rhythms as Information Channels in Interpersonal Communication Behavior
In this paper I begin with the following assumptions which are implicit in a General Systems or communication theoretical epistemology.
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Attitudes, Behavior, and Environmental Policy Issues
How many Americans, I wonder, remember the long lineups to obtain gas in the latter part of January 1974? The impact of that national crisis is a...