Fred L. Bookstein—My Unexpected Journey in Applied Biomathematics (Biological Theory 1:67–77, 2006)
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Heritability and Heterogeneity: The Limited Relevance of Heritability in Investigating Genetic and Environmental Factors...
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Many psychometricians and behavioral geneticists believe that high heritability of IQ test scores within racial groups coupled with environmental hypotheses failing to account for the differences between the mean scores for groups lends plausibility to explanations of mean differences in terms of genetic factors. I show that heritability estimates ...
Developmental Ascendency: From Bottom-up to Top-down Control
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Development is a process whereby a relatively unspecified system comprised of loosely connected lower level parts becomes organized into a coherent, higher-level agency. Its temporal corollaries are growth, increasingly deterministic behavior, and a progressive reduction of developmental potential. During immature stages with relatively low specifi...
Seeing with Hands and Talking without Words: On Models and Images in the Sciences
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Evolutionary Flatland
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Rupert Riedl’s Path of Cognition
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Somatic Evolution of Cells and the Development of Cancer
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Origins and the EcoEvoDevo Problem
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Philosophies of Particular Biological Research Programs
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There is a trend within philosophy of biology to concentrate on questions that are strongly related to particular biological research programs rather than on the general scope of the field and its relation to other sciences. Projects of the latter kind, of course, are followed as well but will not be the topic of this review. Shifting the focus to ...
