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Readings
1.
T. R. Gregory (2009), “Understanding
natural selection: essential concepts and
common misconceptions. Evolution
Education
and Outreach 2: 156-175.
2.
C. Darwin (1859), The
Origin of Species , Ch. 7 “Instinct. ”
From the Talk Origins Archive.
(www.talkorigins.org ).
3.
C. Gross (2010), “Alfred
Russel Wallace and the Evolution of the
Human Mind .” The
Neuroscientist 16: 496-507.
3.5
C. Darwin (1870), The
Descent of Man and Selection in Relation
to Sex, CH
3- The Moral Sense .
Princeton
University
Press.
4.
V.C. Wynne-Edwards (1965), “Self-regulating
systems in populations of animals .” Science,
New
Series 147: 1543-1548.
5.
R. Dawkins (1978), “Replicator
selection and the extended phenotype .”
Zeitschrift
für Tierpsychologie 47:
61-76.
6.
P. Greene (1978), “From
genes to memes? ” Contemporary
Sociology 7: 706-709.
7.
M. J. Wade (1977), “The
selfish gene .” Evolution
32: 220-221.
8.
D. S. Wilson (1983), “The
group selection controversy: history and
current status .” Annual
review of Ecology and Systematics 14:
159-187.
9.
E. Lloyd & S.J. Gould
(1993), “Species
selection on variability .” Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences 90:
595-599.
10.
S.J. Gould and R.C. Lewontin
(1979), “The
spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian
paradigm a critique of the
adaptationist programme.” Proceedings
of the Royal Society of London, Series B.
205:581-98.
11.
Godfrey Smith (2001), “Three
kinds
of adaptationism .” n S. H. Orzack
& E. Sober (eds.), Adaptationism and
Optimality, Cambridge University Press,
2001, pp. 335-357.)
12.
W.F. Doolittle & C.
Sapienza (1980), “Selfish
genes, the phenotype paradigm, and genome
evolution. Nature
284: 601-3.
& 13
L.E. Orgel & F.H. Crick (1980),
“Selfish DNA: the ultimate parasite. Nature
284: 604-7.
14.
E. Lloyd (2015), “Adaptationism
and
the logic of research questions :
How to think clearly about evolutionary
causes.” Biological
Theory 10:343-362.
15.
Graur et al. (2013) “On
the immortality of television sets:
“Function” in the human genome according to
the evolution-free gospel of ENCODE. Genome
Biology and Evolution 5: 578-590.
16.
Michael Soule (1985), “What
is conservation biology? ” BioScience
35:727-734.
17.
R. T. Lackey (2016), “Keep
science
and scientists credible: avoid stealth
policy advocacy .” Bulletin of the
Ecological Society of Australia 46:14-15.
18.
M. Vellend, M. (2017). “The
Biodiversity
Conservation Paradox .” American
Scientist
105:94-101.
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