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Costs As a Key but too Often Neglected Component of Evolutionary Theory
A lesson in evolutionary theory can be drawn from the work of Rick Charnov, who transformed Fisher’s sex ratio theory into sex allocation theory, but...
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New Developments in Evolutionary Theory and Evolutionary Medicine, New Frontiers for Evolutionary Medicine
The central idea of the chapter is, how new developments in evolutionary biology make us see inheritance in new ways, and these new ways create new...
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Human Nature, Metaphysics and Evolutionary Theory
This paper argues that the substance concept, as discussed by Aristotle in his Categories , aids us to improve our understanding of human nature....
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Evolutionary Economics and the Theory of Cultural Evolution
“Evolutionary economics” is a heterogeneous field of economic research that still lacks a coherent theoretical foundation. Some contributions dealing...
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Setting the Stage for Evolutionary Theory
In develo** his theory of evolution, Charles Darwin turned to earlier French ideas, including transformism and Cuvier’s adapted organism....
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Psychology Meets Evolutionary Theory
Evolutionary psychology comprises a wide area of theories and researches. One area focuses on the universal and comprehensive mechanisms of selection...
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Evolutionary trends and goal directedness
The conventional wisdom declares that evolution is not goal directed, that teleological considerations play no part in our understanding of...
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Evolutionary Ethics: Understanding its Transition
This paper offers a descriptive account of the transition in evolutionary ethics with reference to some major works from ethics, sociobiology, moral...
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Evolutionary Theoretician Edward D. Cope and the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis Debate
The Modern Synthesis (MS) gene-centered population model of evolution is currently being challenged by the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis (ESS)...
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The case of poor postpartum mental health: a consequence of an evolutionary mismatch – not of an evolutionary trade-off
Postpartum mood disorders develop shortly after childbirth in a significant proportion of women and have severe effects. Two evolutionary...
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Pluralism and Epistemic Goals: Why the Social Sciences Will (Probably) Not Be Synthesised by Evolutionary Theory
This article discusses Mesoudi et al.’s suggestion to synthesise the social sciences based on a theory of cultural evolution. In view of their...
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Evolutionary Debunking and the Folk/Theoretical Distinction
In metaethics, evolutionary debunking arguments combine empirical and epistemological premises to purportedly show that our moral judgments are...
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The Evolutionary Nature of Knowledge
There is uncanny similarity between evolutionary biology and evolutionary knowledge. Darwin’s theory of evolution is the most comprehensive and...
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On the nature of evolutionary explanations: a critical appraisal of Walter Bock’s approach with a new revised proposal
Walter Bock was committed to develo** a framework for evolutionary biology. Bock repeatedly discussed how evolutionary explanations should be...
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Another Wittgensteinian response to the evolutionary argument against naturalism
In “The evolutionary argument against naturalism: a Wittgensteinian response,” DeVito and McNabb (Int J Philos Relig 92(2):91–98, 2022,...
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Organization and Inheritance in Twenty-First-Century Evolutionary Biology
During the last few years, various authors have called for the elaboration of a theoretical framework that would better take into account the role of...
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Evolutionary anamnesis
In the Meno , Phaedo , and Phaedrus , Plato outlines the controversial thesis of a priori knowledge that all learning is a form of recollection— anamnesis ...
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Resolving the evolutionary paradox of consciousness
Evolutionary fitness threats and rewards are associated with subjectively unpleasant and pleasant sensations, respectively. Initially, these...
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The Risks of Evolutionary Explanation
Evolutionary explanations of behavior are special in that they involve both proximate and ultimate components. Proximately, evolutionary accounts...