Sentences with word «adaptationist»

[Dennett's] limited and superficial book reads like a caricature of a caricature - for if Richard Dawkins has trivialized Darwin's richness by adhering to the strictest form of adaptationist argument in a maximally reductionist mode, then Dennett, as Dawkins» publicist, manages to convert an already vitiated and improbable account into an even more simplistic and uncompromising doctrine.

Sanguine adaptationists should bear in mind that without consequences having catastrophic outcomes when examined and evaluated in detail, adaptation is neither required nor necessary.

He is promising to treat us to some new material, including sidesplitting jokes about EPA gopher and noted blog content adaptationist Alan Carlin.

There are also Urgent and Sanguine Adaptationists and Urgent and Sanguine Geoengineers.

When Richard C. Lewontin and Stephen J. Gould in the 1970s derided the «Just «So» stories of the adaptationists, they were criticizing the ease with which unobserved genes for any trait whatever» whether physical or behavioral» could be posited, without any need to observe them.

I think looking at an emotion like jealousy from an adaptationist standpoint is very positive.

More recently, and controversially, cognitive scientists Jerry Fodor of Rutgers University at New Brunswick, New Jersey, and Massimo Piattelli - Palmarini of the University of Arizona in Tucson have pointed out philosophical problems with the adaptationist argument (New Scientist, 6 February, p 28).

Trouble is, according to Symons and other critics, «adaptationists» such as Hrdy have precious little evidence to appeal to.

Here, biologists say, having set out his adaptationist stall in On the Origin of Species, Darwin proposed female choice as the driving force behind much of the animal world's visual exuberance.

He recounts what he sees as the differences between evolutionary gradualism and punctuated equilibria, though not in any depth; nor does he mention the adaptationist / neutralist controversies, instead assuming that everyone accepts the strict Darwinian model.

An adaptationist approach attempts to identify these functions in order to better understand the current mechanisms underlying some instances of MDD.