Darwin's dangerous idea.

By J. Launer. QJM : monthly journal of the Association of Physicians, 2002

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Subfields: History and Philosophy of Science

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The Tree of Knowledge System and the Theoretical Unification of Psychology (2003, methodology): “Over the next several hundred million years, these self-replicating chemical machines transformed into prokaryotes (primitive cells that lack a nucleus), then eukaryotes (cells with a nucleus), and finally into large-scale, multicellular organisms (Dennett, 1995).”
The economic implications of exaptation (2003, neutral): “Neo-Darwinist thinkers, as summarized by Dennett (1995), have rejected the concept.”
The evolutionary origin of complex features (2003, background): “Following any particular path is extremely unlikely, but the complex function evolved with a high probability, implying a very large number of potential path”
Evolutionary social science and universal Darwinism (2006, background): “The former, which I would associate particularly with Dawkins (1976, 1983) and Daniel Dennett (1995) is basically oriented theoretically by modern evolutionary theory in biology, or a version of that theory, and is postulating that the evolution of human culture can be understood in terms of a…”
Understanding Natural Selection: Essential Concepts and Common Misconceptions (2009, background): “According to philosopher Daniel Dennett (1995), this qualifies evolution by natural selection as “the single best idea anyone has ever had.””
Formation, Growth, and Adaptive Change in Marketing Systems (2015, background): “The co-evolution of beliefs, behaviors, and practices works at all levels of a marketing system, using generalized Darwinian sequences of mutation, selection and replication (Dennett 1995; Runciman 2009; Wilson 2012) to respond to endogenous and exogenous change in system environments.”
Towards a unified science of cultural evolution. (2006, background): “…a significant factor in biological evolution, it was greeted with both dismay and delight: To some it was an ominous backslide from the mindless purity of natural selection, whereas to others it was a welcome relief, restoring cherished elements of “mind” into evolution (Cronin 1991; Dennett 1995).”
Phenotypic plasticity, the Baldwin effect, and the speeding up of evolution: the computational roots of an illusion. (2014, background): “rs in others disciplines (typically evolutionary psychologists and cognitive scientists [25]), who invoke the Baldwin effect as a major evolutionary force that could have led to the emergence of mind [26,27,28] and to modern language [29,30,31,32]. As Yamauchi [33, p. 3] put it, “the Baldwin effect ”
Information Foraging (2009, background): “…for example, the famously critical "spandrels" article of Gould and Lewontin (1979), the eloquent adaptationist stance of Mayr (1983), and the readable overview of these arguments by Dennett (1995). an information access interface or the value of results returned by bibliographic search technology.”
Stability analysis of swarms (2002, background): “Note that the evolutionary process can be viewed as an algorithmic design process which designs organisms and their behavior to be best (optimally) fit to their environment [27].”
Moderators of the Emotion Inhibition-Health Relationship: A Review and Research Agenda (2002, background): “However, it should be remembered that the selective pressures on a phenomenon such as inhibition are greatest up until the time that an organism has successfully reproduced (Dennett, 1995), and there is a sense in which older adults may “ inherit” a collection of adaptations that have been selected ”
Selectionist and Evolutionary Approaches to Brain Function: A Critical Appraisal (2012, methodology): “SELECTION IN GROUPS OF NEURONS We have already touched upon the functioning of the dynamics of neuronal groups as portrayed by Edelman (1987). We shall come back to one key element of NGS at the end of this section.”