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Evolution, Biology and Psychology from a Marxist Point of View
This article is largely historical, but the issues remain timely.
http://www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/paper46.html
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Prediction and Accommodation in Evolutionary Psychology
Ketelaar and Ellis have provided a remarkably clear and succinct statement of Lakatosian philosophy of science and have also argued compellingly that evolutionary theory fills the Lakatosian criteria of a progressivity.
http://philosophy.wisc.edu/forster/papers/Lakatos.htm
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The Meanings of Darwinism: Then and Now?
Charles Darwin grew up in Shrewsbury, Shropshire and attended Shrewsbury School for seven years. The school held a Millennium Conference on 'Darwinism and Ethics for the Next Millennium' on 16 October 1999. Papers were given by Mary Midgley, Matt Ridley,
http://www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/pap124.html
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"The Mind as the Software of the Brain" by Ned Block
Cognitive scientists often say that the mind is the software of the brain. This chapter is about what this claim means.
http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/philo/faculty/block/papers/msb.html
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Bottlenose Dolphins and Theory of Mind
Bottlenose dolphins can recognize themselves in a mirror, an advanced intellectual ability observed previously only in humans and apes.
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/101086398v1
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Fear Makes Worms Turn Friendly
A single gene influences the social behaviour of worms.
http://www.nature.com/nsu/010503/010503-1.html
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Genetics
The British Medical Journal publishes a special edition "putting genetics into perspective".
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/322/7293/1005
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Ancestors
Meave Leakey discusses her team's recent skull find suggesting a new human ancestor.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/04/0417_leakeyinterview.html
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Gene-Trapping Method Powers Discovery of New Brain-Wiring Signals
Marc Tessier-Lavigne and William C. Skarnes unveil a technique that "enables scientists to identify new genes and to determine which genes are responsible for defects in brain wiring that are observed during development".
http://www.hhmi.org/news/tessier4.html
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Ring-breaker Drives Dove Love
Leonida Fusani and colleagues discover the role of aromatase in courtship behaviour.
http://www.nature.com/nsu/010503/010503-2.html
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