Tag: sociobiology

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
May 12, 2026

Categories
Evolution
History of Science
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, __featured1, Asa Gray, bacteria, Charles Darwin, Charles Kingsley, cosmogonism, Crotchet Castle, crotchets, David Stove, Europe, evolution, evolutionary psychology, False Messiah, fish, Francis Darwin, G. B. Müller, Heilsgeschichte, HMS Beagle, humans, James Moore, Jenny (orangutan), Lamarckian theory, Melanie Phillips, monkeys, nescience, Origin of Species, panspermia, Parousia, progress, Question Time, Richard Dawkins, S. A. Newman, sociobiology, The Kingdom of Speech, Thomas Love Peacock, Thomas Malthus, Tom Wolfe, Victorians}

Paradigm Lost: Darwinism and the Idea of Human Progress

_{Neil Thomas
May 12, 2026

Evolution, History of Science, Scientific Reasoning

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The notion of progress is now of course increasingly questioned, especially after what has come to be known as “the calamitous 20th century.” Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
January 4, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Ecology
Ethics
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, ants, behavior, Charles Darwin, entomologists, evolution, human behavior, humans, meaning, morality, On the Origin of Species, physiology, purpose, religion, sociobiology, spirit, worldview}

Remembering E. O. Wilson and Sociobiology

_{Richard Weikart
January 4, 2022

Bioethics, Biology, Ecology, Ethics, Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

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"Wilson is — if his worldview is correct — just as much living a lie as those religionists that he castigates." Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
December 2, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology
Tagged
, boys, Casey Luskin, Charles Darwin, Darwin critics, evolution, girls, human behavior, ID the Future, materialism, natural selection, podcast, sexual selection, Social Darwinism, sociobiology, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, The Descent of Man, Victorian England, World War II}

Evolutionary Psychology: Checkered Past, Checkered Present

_{Jonathan Witt
December 2, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology

3}

If we want to effectively explain human behavior in all its messy richness, we would do well to look beyond this box of just-so stories. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
November 10, 2021

Categories
Chemistry
Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology
Paleontology
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, evolution, How I Came to Take Leave of Darwin (series), Louis Pasteur, macromutations, Mars, micromutations, Niles Eldredge, Paul Davies, sociobiology, Stanley Miller, Stephen Jay Gould, Viking mission, William Harvey}

Fables of Evolutionary Psychology (aka Sociobiology)

_{Neil Thomas
November 10, 2021

Chemistry, Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology, Paleontology

7}

Evolutionary psychologists are prone to make up just-so stories which are then passed off as being entirely veridical. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
April 26, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, biologists, Darwinism, E.O. Wilson, Ernst Haeckel, evolutionary ethics, Germany, Jeffrey O’Connell, Julian Huxley, laissez-faire, Michael Ruse, militarism, scientific racism, Social Darwinism, sociobiology, Thomas Henry Huxley, World War I}

New Book: Social Darwinism Among the Biologists

_{Richard Weikart
April 26, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution

4}

The authors imply that social Darwinism was a position taken by non-scientists who just didn’t understand the science. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
January 13, 2020

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __edited, Abraham Lincoln, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Barbara McClintock, Brooklyn College, central dogma, creationism, Daniel Dennett, Darwinian, Discovery Institute, Divine Foot, Douglas Futuyma, E.O. Wilson, Ernst Mayr, evolutionary biology, Francis Collins, Francis Crick, Francisco Ayala, intelligent design, J.B.S. Haldane, James Shapiro, James Watson, jesus, Luther College, Mackenzie Presbyterian University, Marcos Eberlin, mental illness, Moses, non-overlapping magisteria (NOMA), North American Teilhard Society, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Richard Dawkins, Richard Lewontin, skeptics, sociobiology, Stanford University, Stephen Jay Gould, teleology, The Mystery of Evolutionary Mechanisms, Theodosius Dobzhansky, Thomson Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, William Provine}

Religion, Science, and Evolution: Confessions of a Darwinian Skeptic

_{Robert Shedinger
January 13, 2020

Faith & Science

30}

As I read through the scientific literature of evolutionary biology to try and convince myself of its accuracy and coherence, I was struck by the frequency with which I encountered “religious” language. Read More ›