I conclude with a programme for an inclusive, scientific anthropology that is consistent with Darwinian biology.doi:10.1111/j.1469-8676.2004.tb00100.xJONATHAN MARKSCambridge University PressSocial Anthropology
The most influential biologist in history, Charles Darwin, developed the idea of evolution and species change. This idea is the current model used by biologists to describe all life on Earth. Answer and Explanation: Fitness in Darwinian evolution does not refer to physical strength or athleticism,...
What is life? This question remains the quintessential puzzle of biological sciences, encapsulating the intricate complexity and stunning diversity of life forms. This study proposes that one viable approach to addressing this immense complexity is to conceptualize living matter as a cascade of machines ...
Is beauty just in the eye of the beholder? In other words, are we culturally conditioned to think some writing is beautiful? Or is there something universal in beautiful writing, something that exists beyond cultural relativity and is inherent in all human perceptions? A Darwinian Theory of ...
Or how evolution via Darwinian mechanisms crosses paths with pop culture in fowl ways, such as how tastes-like-chicken evolved, or how some say that chickens, over great periods of time, have been naturally selected in such a way that they are now heritably predisposed to cross roads, or ...
kin selection as an explanation of altruism, punctuated equilibria versus whatever the latest neo-Darwinian synthesis might be, or some other such academic dust- up, and I have zero interest in engaging in those debates. I don’t have to embrace everything that Wilson claims about group ...
“How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin,” a lathe classic Kipling tale. This series is revisiting Kipling’s tales in light of modern evolutionary science and evidence, whereas Kipling only had crude, Lamarckian or early Darwinian insight. Check out their earlier episodes on whales, leopards and ...
need for a deep shift in the way we see the world as a fragile organism in need of TLC rather than a Darwinian sphere where it’s the survival of the fittest – or should that be the fattest. Survival in NZ has been relatively easy. We live in a land where the number of sheep ...
This is not nearly as crazy as it might sound. Philosophers of science, faced with the puzzle of how life might emerge from dead matter or how conscious beings might evolve from microbes, have developed two types of explanations. If living creatures are not robots after all, many of these ...
From a biological Darwinian perspective, having two sexes is bizarre because each time you have an offspring you toss away half your genes. My children only have--each of them have half my DNA. If I were to clone, they would have all of it. And so, it's a puzzle how sex ever ...