The Worldviews of Stephen Jay
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The Academic Nature of Worldviews ................................................................................ 1 Pre-Darwinian Worldviews ................................................................................................ 2 Darwin’s Worldview ........................................................................................................... 5 Mendel, Population Genetics, and the Modern Evolutionary Synthesis .......................... 13 Punctuated Equilibrium .................................................................................................... 18 Adaptationism and the Spandrels of San Marco ............................................................... 22 Reductionism, Selfish Genes, and Evolutionary Psychology ........................................... 27 Hierarchical Evolution ...................................................................................................... 30 Catastrophe and Mass Extinction ...................................................................................... 34 Trends in Natural History ................................................................................................. 37 Gould on Science, Creationism, the Humanities, and Religion ........................................ 43 Summary ........................................................................................................................... 48
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