Comments on: Adapting Minds

By: Eek

Eek — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 11:31:00 +0000

Here’s the debunk of Buller: http://www.psych.ucsb.edu/research/cep/buller.htm

As for Gould: The only part I know of is conflicts around “Puntuated Equilibrium” – Gould is claiming he’s got a paradigm shift, the rest of evolutionists say “That’s what we’ve been saying the entire time” (including quotes from The Origin of The Species to show it as orthodox.)

I’m not qualified to have an opinion if they or he is right.

-Eek

By: razib

razib — Tue, 03 May 2005 01:27:00 +0000

Is there some egregious incident Gould was involved with that I’ve missed out on?

gould had a far bigger rep. with the public than he had within the discipline of evolutionary psychology. ergo, he turned his own personal mole-hills (the perception of genuinely eminent evolutionary biologists* like j.m. smith) into paradigm-shifts (public perception).

* gould seems like a decent paleontologist, and some of his ideas like exaptation probably clarified issues that others left implicit in a novel and precise fashion, but, he wasn’t really a revolutionary evolutionary biologist who presented a positive paradigm which others have followed. perhaps d.s. wilson, with is multi-level stuff, is a real example of someone trying to “shake things up” by moving in a different direction instead of turning corrections into the whole story.

By: washerdreyer

washerdreyer — Mon, 02 May 2005 16:56:00 +0000

I am consistently mystified by blogospheric Gould bashing. I’m not under the impression that it’s a left/right thing, though I could be wrong. At first I thought it was just people who just dislike popularizers of science, but I’ve pretty much dropped that theory as well. Is there some egregious incident Gould was involved with that I’ve missed out on?

By: washerdreyer

washerdreyer — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

By: razib

razib — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Is there some egregious incident Gould was involved with that I’ve missed out on?

By: Eek

Eek — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Here’s the debunk of Buller: http://www.psych.ucsb.edu/research/cep/buller.htm

I’m not qualified to have an opinion if they or he is right.

-Eek

By: Gene Expression

Gene Expression — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Adapting Minds, David Bulller & Evolutionary Psychology

I wasn’t going to comment on this until I later, but a confluence of events have prompted me to offer (quick) opinions on the book Adapting Minds, by David J. Buller. Steve has weighed in, and now Buller’s former student,…