Why Men Won't Ask for Directions: The Seductions of Sociobiology
Meisenberg, Gerhard, Mankind Quarterly
Why Men Won't Ask for Directions: The Seductions of Sociobiology
Richard C. Frauds
Princeton University Press, 2004
In their famous 1979 article The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm: a critique of the adaptationist programme, Steven Jay Gould and Richard Lewontin attacked the belief that all biological features arose as adaptations by way of natural selection. Many or most biological structures, the authors claimed, rather evolved as the inevitable consequences of developmental constraints. Gould and Lewontin offered little in the way of meaningful evidence for their critique of adaptation by natural selection, but their views remained popular …
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Article title: Why Men Won't Ask for Directions: The Seductions of Sociobiology.
Contributors: Meisenberg, Gerhard - Author.
Journal title: Mankind Quarterly.
Volume: 46.
Issue: 4
Publication date: Summer 2006.
Page number: 509+.
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