Tag: sexual selection
Did Sexual Selection Make Male Mosquitofish Really Smart?
It’s worth considering that the fish who can solve mazes may also be better able to stay out of the way of predators than the ones who couldn’t.
Evolutionists Are Stymied by the Human Mind
Media love natural histories of the mind. Advocates have proposed mental illness, chimpanzees throwing excrement, and baby slings as the accidental spark.
For Alfred Russel Wallace, Natural Selection Opened the Door to Teleology
Charles Darwin always recognized to some extent the problem of removing all vestiges of intelligent causation from evolutionary processes.
Evolutionary Psychology: Checkered Past, Checkered Present
If we want to effectively explain human behavior in all its messy richness, we would do well to look beyond this box of just-so stories.
Darwin and the Devolution of Story
Darwinian materialism suggests that the impulse toward artistic creation is merely the human songbird attracting a mate.