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Functional Origins of Religious Concepts
This is a profound essay on the role of religion from an evolutionary perspective. Pascal Boyer, the author, is one of the rising stars in evolutionary theory in the social sciences.
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/anthro/bec/papers/boyer_religious_concepts.htm
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Animal Soul
A history of the idea and a critique of reductionism. It appeared in Paul Edwards, ed., 'The Encyclopedia of Philosophy.'
http://www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/paper59.html
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Association of Ideas
This essay appeared in Philip P. Wiener, ed., 'Dictionary of the History of Ideas'.
http://www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/paper58.html
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Darwin and the Genre of Biography
Published in G. Levine, ed., 'One Culture: Essays in Science and Literature'. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987, pp. 203-24.
http://www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/paper48.html
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Darwin: Man and Metaphor
This is the text of a television documentary in the series 'Late Great Victorians', BBC1, 1988. It was also published in Science as Culture no. 5: 71-86, 1989.
http://www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/paper7.html
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Darwinism is Social
This essay appeared on David Kohn, ed., 'The Darwinian Heritage'. Princeton and Nova Pacifica, 1985, pp. 609-638.
http://www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/paper60.html
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Darwin, Marx, Freud and the Foundations of the Human Sciences
This is a talk on the grand view of the human sciences, presented to CHEIRON, the European Society for the History of the Behavioural Sciences and reprinted in its Newsletter, Spring 1988, pp. 7-12.
http://www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/paper9.html
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Darwinism and the Division of Labour
The founding conference of the British Society for the Social Responsibility in Science in November 1970, was on the theme, 'The Social Impact of Modern Biology'. The conference was attended by a number of eminent scientists, e.g., Nobel Laureates James
http://www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/pap109.html
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Darwin's Metaphor and the Philosophy of Science
This was first presented to the Piaget Seminar, University of Geneva, about 1986 and published in Science as Culture (no. 16) 3: 375-403, 1993. It draws out the philosophical implications of 'Darwin's Metaphor' (Cambridge, 1985), in particular, the role
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The Development of Herbert Spencer's Concept of Evolution
A paper delivered to the Eleventh International Congress of the History of Science, Warsaw, August 1965 and published in Actes du Xle Congres International d'Histoire des Sciences Warsaw: Ossolineum, 1967, vol. 2, pp. 273-78.
http://www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/spencer.html
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