Contemporary Controversies Within the Framework of the Evolutionary Theory

The author claims that J. Kornai in his paper Innovation and Dynamism (Voprosy Ekonomiki. 2012. No 4) ignored the understanding of socialism as a specific type of culture and not just as an economic system. He also shows profound differences between Schumpeters theory and mainstream economic models. Evolutionary theory, he claims, may itself become mainstream if Schumpeters legacy is not interpreted straightforwardly and if evolutionary economists consider not only micro-, but also macro-level of analysis in studying macrogenerations of capital of a different age.

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GRANT, V. The evolutionary process, a critical study of evolutionary theory. Columbia University Press, New York: 1991. Pp xx, 487; illustrated. Price: US$ 60. ISBN: 0-231-07324-0.

Archives of Natural History ◽

10.3366/anh.1993.20.1.143a ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 20 (1) ◽

pp. 143-143 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

A. L. PANCHEN

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Evolutionary Theory ◽

Evolutionary Process ◽

Critical Study ◽

Columbia University

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Revising Plants, man and life: Edgar Anderson reshapes a classic book

Archives of Natural History ◽

10.3366/anh.2003.30.1.85 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 30 (1) ◽

pp. 85-96 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Kim Kleinman

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Evolutionary Theory ◽

Evolutionary Synthesis ◽

Ernst Mayr ◽

Active Participant ◽

Evolutionary Mechanism ◽

Popular Work ◽

Scientific Attention ◽

Key Events ◽

Jesup Lectures

On at least four occasions, Edgar Anderson (1897–1969) began revising his book Plants, man and life (1952). Given both its place in Anderson's career and his place in the development of evolutionary theory in the mid-twentieth century, the emendations are noteworthy. Though a popular work, Plants, man and life served as the distillation of Anderson's ideas on hybridization as an evolutionary mechanism, the need for more scientific attention on domesticated and semi-domesticated plants, and the opportunities such plants provided for the study of evolution. Anderson was an active participant in several key events in what historians have come to call the Evolutionary Synthesis. For example, he and Ernst Mayr shared the 1941 Jesup Lectures on “Systematics and the origin of species”. Anderson's proposed revisions to his book reflect both an attempt to soften certain acerbic comments as well as an attempt to recast the book as a whole.

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Siren canora: the mermaid and the mythical in late nineteenth-century science

Archives of Natural History ◽

10.3366/e0260954108000041 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 35 (1) ◽

pp. 1-14 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

H. BRINK-ROBY

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Evolutionary Theory ◽

Focus Of Attention ◽

British Association ◽

Social Boundaries ◽

Late Nineteenth Century ◽

Darwinian Theory ◽

Late Nineteenth ◽

Century Science

This paper argues that, for a number of naturalists and lay commentators in the second half of the nineteenth century, evolutionary – especially Darwinian – theory gave new authority to mythical creatures. These writers drew on specific elements of evolutionary theory to assert the existence of mermaids, dragons and other fabulous beasts. But mythological creatures also performed a second, often contrapositive, argumentative function; commentators who rejected evolution regularly did so by dismissing these creatures. Such critics agreed that Darwin's theory legitimized the mythological animal, but they employed this legitimization to undermine the theory itself. The mermaid, in particular, was a focus of attention in this mytho-evolutionary debate, which ranged from the pages of Punch to the lecture halls of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Crossing social boundaries and taking advantage of a range of venues, this debate arose in response to the indeterminate challenge of evolutionary theory. In its discussions of mermaids and dragons, centaurs and satyrs, this discourse helped define that challenge, construing and constructing the meanings and implications of evolutionary theory in the decades following Darwin's publication.

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The Continuum of Conscientiousness: The Antagonistic Interests among Obsessive and Antisocial Personalities

Polish Psychological Bulletin ◽

10.2478/ppb-2014-0022 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 45 (2) ◽

pp. 167-178 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Steven C. Hertler

Keyword(s):

Personality Disorder ◽

Evolutionary Theory ◽

Antisocial Personality Disorder ◽

The Other ◽

Antisocial Personality ◽

Obsessive Compulsive ◽

Demographic Differences ◽

Other Hand ◽

The Continuum

Abstract The five factor trait of conscientiousnessis a supertrait, denoting on one hand a pattern of excessive labor, rigidity, orderliness and compulsivity,and on the other hand a pattern of strict rectitude, scrupulosity, dutifulness and morality. In both respects the obsessive-compulsive personality is conscientious; indeed, it has been labeled a disorder of extreme conscientiousness (Widiger et al., 2009). Antisocial personality disorder, in the present paper, is described as occupying the opposite end of the conscientiousness continuum. The antisocial is impulsive rather than compulsive, illicit rather than licit, and furtive rather than forthright.After clinically comparing the obsessive and antisocial personalities, the present paper invokes evolutionary theory to explain their resultant behavioral, ideological, political and demographic differences.

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