Tag: Jerry Fodor
Nature Communications Retroactively Concedes a Lack of Evidence for Darwinian Gradualism
Explaining the origin of complex phenotypic novelty is the million-dollar question in evolutionary biology.
Genius in Lilliput
Complex programmed behaviors are evident throughout the animal kingdom, but in these pages the focus will primarily be on less advanced animals.
Darwin’s Theory of Natural Selection Has Left a Legacy of Confusion over Biological Adaptation
Our ability to adapt to fantastically diverse circumstances did not result from the happenstance of environmental conditions.
Honoring Richard Lewontin, Famed Evolutionary Biologist and Sometime Critic of His Own Field
The quote for which Lewontin has become best known appeared in his 1997 review of a book by Carl Sagan.
An Intelligent Design Behind Consciousness — Or an Instinctive One?
Something immaterial can’t have an effect on the material realm, presumably, so how would it be selected as advantageous by Darwinian natural selection?
