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Adaptationism
Kamis, 2026-02-12 14:43:07

limited to) natural selection. The most obvious justification for an adaptationist perspective is the belief that traits are, in fact, always adaptations...

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The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm
Jumat, 2025-10-03 01:52:00

Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme", also known as the "Spandrels paper", is a paper by evolutionary...

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Hebephilia
Rabu, 2026-02-11 08:19:48

responded to Franklin's comment, writing that presumably Franklin's "adaptationist argument" applied only to heterosexual males, as homosexual hebephilia...

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Evolutionary psychology
Kamis, 2026-05-14 15:02:50

sexual selection or non-adaptive by-products of other adaptive traits. Adaptationist thinking about physiological mechanisms, such as the heart, lungs, and...

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Darwinian literary studies
Senin, 2026-01-26 11:38:34

Imagination, at the National Humanities Center, 2007; Joseph Carroll, "Adaptationist Literary Study: An Emerging Research Program," Style 42 (2008): 119-28...

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Spandrel (biology)
Selasa, 2025-11-25 02:26:44

Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme". Adaptationism is a point of view that sees most organismal...

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Richard Dawkins
Selasa, 2026-06-02 03:40:46

Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. B. 205 (1161):...

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Rape
Jumat, 2026-06-05 22:58:35

H. Stefan (September 2004). "Freeze, Flight, Fight, Fright, Faint: Adaptationist Perspectives on the Acute Stress Response Spectrum" (PDF). CNS Spectrums...

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Great Filter
Rabu, 2026-04-15 20:57:35

2298/saj0366001c. Ćirković, Milan M. (2004-08-27). "Permanence – An Adaptationist Solution to Fermi's Paradox?". Journal of the British Interplanetary...

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Fight-or-flight response
Senin, 2026-05-25 03:23:31

H. Stefan (September 2004). "Freeze, Flight, Fight, Fright, Faint: Adaptationist Perspectives on the Acute Stress Response Spectrum" (PDF). CNS Spectrums...

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Just-so story
Minggu, 2026-01-04 23:33:08

correctly make novel predictions. Berry et al. argue that critics of adaptationist "just so stories" are often guilty of creating "just not so stories"...

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Gene-centered view of evolution
Minggu, 2026-05-10 08:36:10

Critics argue that proponents of the gene-centered view often favor an adaptationist perspective that assumes a role for natural selection as the null hypothesis...

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Richard Lewontin
Senin, 2026-03-30 14:05:30

Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme." "Spandrels" were described as features of an organism that...

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How the Mind Works
Senin, 2025-06-09 07:55:14

argues for both a computational theory of mind and a neo-Darwinist, adaptationist approach to evolution, all of which he sees as the central components...

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Criticism of evolutionary psychology
Senin, 2026-03-30 19:16:23

critics of adaptationist hypotheses are often guilty of uncritically accepting any alternative explanation provided it is not the adaptationist one. Furthermore...

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Neutral theory of molecular evolution
Minggu, 2025-12-07 14:18:28

one-directional or "ratchet-like" process. CNE, which does not invoke adaptationist mechanisms for the origins of more complex systems (which involve more...

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Constructive neutral evolution
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 00:15:58

genetic drift. Constructive neutral evolution is a competitor for both adaptationist explanations for the emergence of complex traits and hypotheses positing...

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The Adapted Mind
Senin, 2025-03-31 04:23:32

psychology, as well as many other concepts that would become important in adaptationist research. The theoretical foundations of evolutionary psychology are...

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Provenance
Minggu, 2026-05-24 20:28:10

be planted in a particular area. However, this view depends on the adaptationist program – a view that populations are universally locally adapted. It...

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Physical attractiveness
Rabu, 2026-05-27 23:24:52

PMID 19570778. Sugiyama, Lawrence S. (2015). "Physical Attractiveness in Adaptationist Perspective". The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology. pp. 292–343....

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Daniel Dennett
Kamis, 2026-05-28 22:24:57

one). Dennett's views on evolution are identified as being strongly adaptationist, in line with his theory of the intentional stance, and the evolutionary...

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Fear
Jumat, 2026-05-22 20:42:45

Bracha HS (September 2004). "Freeze, flight, fight, fright, faint: adaptationist perspectives on the acute stress response spectrum" (PDF). CNS Spectrums...

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Stephen Jay Gould
Minggu, 2026-05-17 15:33:39

spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm: a critique of the adaptationist programme". Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B Biol. Sci. 205 (1161): 581–98. Bibcode:1979RSPSB...

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Anthropocene
Selasa, 2026-06-02 19:32:25

P.J. (2010). "Response to 'The Anthropocene forces us to reconsider adaptationist models of human-environment interactions'". Environmental Science &...

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Structuralism (biology)
Rabu, 2026-01-28 06:49:41

school of biological thought that objects to an exclusively Darwinian or adaptationist explanation of natural selection such as is described in the 20th century's...

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Mate choice in humans
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 22:28:38

OCLC 4494283. Sugiyama, Lawrence (2015). "Physical Attractiveness: An Adaptationist Perspective". In Buss, David (ed.). The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology...

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Aquatic ape hypothesis
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 01:33:21

though these claimed pieces of evidence have alternative evolutionary adaptationist explanations that do not invoke an aquatic context. The diving reflex...

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Sexual violence
Jumat, 2026-05-08 16:13:33

S2CID 23599650. Bracha, H. Stefan (2004). "Freeze, Flight, Fight, Fright, Faint: Adaptationist Perspectives on the Acute Stress Response Spectrum". CNS Spectrums....

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Mobbing (animal behavior)
Kamis, 2026-06-04 12:15:12

identify and respond to predators before releasing them into the wild. Adaptationist hypotheses regarding why an organism should engage in such risky behavior...

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Phylogenetic inertia
Senin, 2024-09-23 21:42:46

Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological...

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Homoplasy
Sabtu, 2026-02-28 09:04:28

nucleotide substitutions accumulating over time, and thus may not need an adaptationist evolutionary explanation. There are numerous documented examples of...

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Long hair
Senin, 2026-06-01 13:44:12

2000.1450. Sugiyama, Lawrence S. (2005) "Physical Attractiveness in Adaptationist Perspective", Chapter 10 in Buss, David M. (ed.) The Handbook of Evolutionary...

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Evolutionary approaches to depression
Rabu, 2026-02-18 18:10:18

Watson, P.J.; Andrews, P.W. (2002). "Toward a revised evolutionary adaptationist analysis of depression: the social navigation hypothesis". Journal of...

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Steven Neuberg
Minggu, 2024-12-29 12:58:11

thought processes; extending this approach, his later work employs the adaptationist logic of evolutionary psychology to inform the study of social cognition...

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Evolutionary medicine
Rabu, 2026-01-14 20:52:11

behavior Women's reproductive cancers As noted in the table below, adaptationist hypotheses regarding the etiology of psychological disorders are often...

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Theories about religion
Kamis, 2026-04-30 11:47:52

Evolutionary theories view religion as either an adaptation or a byproduct. Adaptationist theories view religion as being of adaptive value to the survival of...

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Middlesex (novel)
Senin, 2026-05-18 04:42:28

(September 1, 2007). "'Why don't you just leave it up to nature?': an adaptationist reading of the novels of Jeffrey Eugenides". Mosaic. Winnipeg, Manitoba:...

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Psychology of religion
Jumat, 2026-06-05 05:57:33

toward religious belief is a genuine scientific puzzle. He thinks that adaptationist explanations for religion do not meet the criteria for adaptations....

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Evolutionary psychology of language
Selasa, 2026-01-13 01:58:53

criticizes some strands of evolutionary psychology for suggesting a pan-adaptationist view of evolution, and dismisses Pinker and Bloom's question of whether...

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The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
Kamis, 2026-06-04 19:45:46

Wallace, who in this particular instance abandoned his normally strict "adaptationist" agenda in asserting that the highly intricate and developed forms such...

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Darwin's Dangerous Idea
Senin, 2026-01-12 02:09:46

Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B. 205 (1161):...

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Evolutionary psychiatry
Senin, 2026-04-27 07:41:34

S2CID 2763876. Dubrovsky B (January 2002). "Evolutionary psychiatry. Adaptationist and nonadaptationist conceptualizations". Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology...

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Karl Schroeder
Selasa, 2026-04-14 08:02:55

Schroeder at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database Permanence - An Adaptationist Solution to Fermi's Paradox? by Milan M. Cirkovic Adaptationism Fails...

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Dawkins vs. Gould
Senin, 2026-05-18 08:06:21

biological anthropologists, have accepted the need for caution in testing adaptationist hypotheses. (p. 165) However, even the most disciplined sociobiological...

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Robert Kurzban
Rabu, 2026-05-20 14:32:08

evolutionary approaches to understanding human social behavior. He took an adaptationist view of human psychology, studying the adaptive function, or, survival...

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Sociobiology: The New Synthesis
Senin, 2026-01-12 04:10:51

could be polygenic). Sociobiologists were accused of being "super" adaptationists, or panadaptationist, believing that every aspect of morphology and...

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Alessandro Valignano
Selasa, 2026-06-02 05:05:12

nationality led to conflicts with mission personnel, as would later his adaptationist and expansionist policies. As Visitor, it was his responsibility to...

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The Mismeasure of Man
Selasa, 2026-04-21 16:49:26

spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm: a critique of the adaptationist programme". Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B Biol. Sci. 205 (1161): 581–98. Bibcode:1979RSPSB...

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Costly signaling theory in evolutionary psychology
Selasa, 2026-02-03 03:49:38

art is generally not considered to be genetically encoded. Instead, adaptationist approaches often involve the hypothesis that humans possess adaptations...

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Jean Nicod Prize
Selasa, 2026-05-05 11:58:18

Leda Cosmides John Tooby University of California Santa Barbara The Adaptationist Revolution and the Transformation of the Cognitive Sciences 2021 Frances...

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List of publications in philosophy
Kamis, 2026-04-23 20:42:51

Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme", 1979 Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man, 1981/1996...

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Rape paralysis
Rabu, 2026-02-11 02:13:21

Bracha, H. Stefan (2004). "Freeze, Flight, Fight, Fright, Faint: Adaptationist Perspectives on the Acute Stress Response Spectrum" (PDF). CNS Spectrums...

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Michael Ruse
Selasa, 2026-03-17 20:45:52

found Ruse's handling of structuralism "less satisfactory" than of the adaptationist, Darwinian traditions. He called Ruse's writing style "bluff, unselfconscious...

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Ovulatory shift hypothesis
Rabu, 2026-02-25 00:36:00

PMC 11265918. PMID 39043247. Fessler, Daniel M. T. (2003). "No time to eat: An adaptationist account of periovulatory behavioral changes". The Quarterly Review of...

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Bias in the introduction of variation
Jumat, 2026-05-01 07:16:42

deficiency noted by critics, e.g., Reeve and Sherman (1993) defended the adaptationist program (against the developmentalists and the famous critique of adaptationism...

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Rounded shoulder posture
Senin, 2026-04-20 11:28:02

H. Stefan (September 2004). "Freeze, Flight, Fight, Fright, Faint: Adaptationist Perspectives on the Acute Stress Response Spectrum" (PDF). CNS Spectrums...

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Teleology in biology
Kamis, 2026-04-30 07:32:42

spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm: a critique of the adaptationist programme". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B. 205 (1161):...

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Relational mobility
Senin, 2026-02-09 10:41:23

"Cross-Cultural Differences and Similarities in Proneness to Shame: An Adaptationist and Ecological Approach". Evolutionary Psychology. 10 (2): 352–370....

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Developmental bias
Senin, 2026-04-20 12:08:17

the course of ontogeny. It contrasts with the Functionalist (also "adaptationist", "pan-selectionist" or "externalist") view in which phenotypic evolution...

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The Evolution of Human Sexuality
Rabu, 2026-06-03 03:30:12

being "the first to articulate the theoretical foundations of a fully adaptationist view of male and female mating minds" and "the first social scientist...

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Friendship jealousy
Senin, 2025-12-29 00:14:15

friends. Relatedly, researchers studying emotion from a functional or adaptationist standpoint argue that friendship jealousy arises when a valued friendship...

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Koinophilia
Rabu, 2026-05-06 11:35:52

spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm: A critique of the adaptationist programme". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B. 205 (1161)...

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Eastern three-lined skink
Selasa, 2026-05-19 09:38:26

PMID 15891833. S2CID 39092108. Shine, Richard (2002-11-01). "Reconstructing an Adaptationist Scenario: What Selective Forces Favor the Evolution of Viviparity in...

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Jean Paul Van Bendegem
Kamis, 2026-02-19 02:36:49

Nathalie (2006). Evolutionary epistemology, language and culture a non-adaptationist, systems theoretical approach. Dordrecht: Springer. ISBN 9781402033940...

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Mate value
Rabu, 2026-04-01 18:46:08

1017/S0140525X00023992. Sugiyama, L. S. (2005). Physical Attractiveness: An Adaptationist Perspective. The handbook of evolutionary psychology. Gangestad, Steven...

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Beneficial acclimation hypothesis
Sabtu, 2023-05-27 04:48:35

criticism of the adaptationist program by Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Lewontin led to a call for increased robustness in testing adaptationist hypotheses...

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Human evolutionary developmental biology
Sabtu, 2025-07-12 11:18:37

spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm: a critique of the adaptationist programme". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological...

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Mark Schaller
Selasa, 2025-05-13 23:36:36

of group stereotypes. Additional lines of research, informed by the adaptationist reasoning characteristic of evolutionary psychology, focused on the...

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Intuitive statistics
Kamis, 2026-01-01 08:17:39

that cannot be corrected by converted data to natural frequencies. For adaptationists, EMT can be applied to inference under any informational domain, where...

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Ecological fitting
Rabu, 2026-01-21 20:30:15

these associations. In his 1980 paper, Janzen gives a response to these adaptationist explanations of why a phenotype or species might exist in a particular...

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Harald Eia
Sabtu, 2026-02-14 08:51:44

theoretical orientations of cultural determinists and evolutionary adaptationists. http://feelgoodtv.no * The Gender Equality Paradox * The Parental Effect...

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Monad to Man
Jumat, 2025-01-03 17:20:26

handling of the morphological traditions "less satisfactory" than of the adaptationist, Darwinian traditions, and doubts whether Richard Owen was a social...

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