Tag: Eva Jablonka

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
July 9, 2026

Categories
Evolution
History of Science
Tagged
, adaptations, biology, conscious purposiveness, determinism, Edmund Ware Sinnott, environment, epigenetics, Eva Jablonka, evolution, Evolution: The History of an Idea, freedom, George Levine, Georges Cuvier, history, homeostasis, inheritance, instinctive regulation, J. Scott Turner, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Jerry Coyne, Jessica Riskin, Lamarckism, Laurent Larson, Marion Lamb, motivation, neo-Darwinian synthesis, personality, Peter J. Bowler, Purpose and Desire, regeneration, Skeptic Magazine, teleology, The Power of Life, Yale University}

Re-evaluating Lamarck’s Contribution to Evolutionary Thought

_{Michael Flannery
July 9, 2026

Evolution, History of Science

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The rehabilitation of Lamarck and the important work of scholars of the past (i.e., Sinnott) and present (i.e., Turner) suggest an interesting conclusion. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
May 16, 2026

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Zoology
Tagged
, Albert Newen, anole lizards, Antonella Tramacere, Antonio Damasio, Axel Cleeremans, biology, Carlos Montemayor, Catherine Tallon-Baudry, cognition, cognitive science, consciousness, Dogs, Eva Jablonka, experience, Gianmarco Maldarelli, horses, Jacques Singer, Jonathan Birch, Jonathon D. Crystal, Julio Hechavarria, Kristin Andrews, Krzysztof Dołęga, Lars Chittka, Léa Moncoucy, Lucia Melloni, Maxime Janbon, memory, neuroscience, Nicholas Humphrey, Noam Miller, Olga Dyakova, Onur Güntürkün, philosophy, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Royal Society, Sarah Skeels, self-awareness, Simon Alexander Burns Brown, Simona Ginsburg, T. S. Eliot, Yuranny Cabral-Calderin}

What Is Consciousness For? Sixteen Theories Take a Crack at the Question

_{Denyse O’Leary
May 16, 2026

Neuroscience & Mind, Zoology

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It sounds like we do not really know what we are looking for, which will doubtless complicate efforts to find it. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
August 14, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Trustworthiness
Tagged
, abiogenesis, biologists, Case Western Reserve University, credibility, Eva Jablonka, evolution, Evolution “On Purpose”, grammar, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Journal of Molecular Evolution, methodological naturalism, MIT Press, origin of life, Peter Corning, scientific establishment, teleology}

Is Intelligent Design Gaining the Upper Hand?

_{Robert Shedinger
August 14, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Trustworthiness

5}

The underlying dynamic here is one of fear — fear of being associated with a movement one cannot easily dispel through evidence and argument. Read More ›

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Date
November 20, 2022

Categories
Biology
Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, animals, apes, cats, consciousness, Eva Jablonka, evolution, Irreducible Complexity, Martin Luther King Jr., mice, Mother Teresa, Psychology Today, University of Toronto}

Evolution of Human Consciousness Solved! — Yet Again

_{Science & Culture
November 20, 2022

Biology, Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind

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What does the term “evolution” contribute to the discussion of the origin of human consciousness? Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
June 29, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, Aristotle, Charles Darwin, consciousness, Eva Jablonka, evolution, evolutionary biology, fairy tales, humans, just-so stories, soul, Stephen Jay Gould, storytelling}

Is Consciousness the Sort of Thing That Could Have Evolved?

_{Michael Egnor
June 29, 2022

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

4}

Researchers Simona Ginsberg and Eva Jablonka have written a book attempting to trace the evolution of consciousness. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 1, 2021

Categories
Anatomy
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Origin of Life
Tagged
, brains, Cambrian Explosion, consciousness, David Chalmers, Eva Jablonka, Germany, protocells}

Did Minimal Consciousness Drive the Cambrian Explosion?

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 1, 2021

Anatomy, Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind, Origin of Life

5}

Eva Jablonka’s team makes the daring case, repurposing Hungarian chemist Tibor Gánti’s origin of life studies. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
July 11, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Adrian Desmond, African Americans, Anglo-Saxons, Charles Darwin, Charles Kingsley, Civil War, Darwinism, Eva Jablonka, evolution, James Moore, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Lamarckian theory, Louis Agassiz, Peter Bowler, Racism, Rutgers University, Social Darwinism, The Descent of Man, Thomas Henry Huxley, William Graham}

Distancing Darwin from Racism Is a Fool’s Errand

_{Michael Flannery
July 11, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution

10}

“Scholars have wasted their time trying to exonerate Darwin of responsibility for Social Darwinism, for he was a Social Darwinist.” Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
November 23, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Adrian Desmond, African Americans, Anglo-Saxons, Charles Darwin, Charles Kingsley, Civil War, Darwinism, Eva Jablonka, evolution, James Moore, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Lamarckian theory, Louis Agassiz, Peter Bowler, Racism, Rutgers University, Social Darwinism, The Descent of Man, Thomas Henry Huxley, William Graham}

Distancing Darwin from Racism Is a Fool’s Errand

_{Michael Flannery
November 23, 2020

Bioethics, Evolution

9}

“Scholars have wasted their time trying to exonerate Darwin of responsibility for Social Darwinism, for he was a Social Darwinist.” Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
March 6, 2020

Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __edited, Barbara McClintock, chaos, Discovery Institute, engineers, Eva Jablonka, intelligence, intelligent design, James Clerk Maxwell, James Shapiro, John Cairns, Maxwell’s demon, molecular machines, motors, nanotechnology, natural genetic engineering, order, origin of information, Paul Davies, rotors, Second Law of Thermodynamics, Stephen Meyer}

Hey, Paul Davies — Your ID Is Showing

_{Robert Shedinger
March 6, 2020

Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physical Sciences

5}

No better advertisements for intelligent design exist than works written by establishment scientists that unintentionally make design arguments. Read More ›