Non-Adaptationist Biologies

Introduction

Good places to start

Gould, S.J. and Lewontin, R.C. (1979). The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm: a critique of the adaptationist programme. Proc. R. Soc. London: Series B, 205: 581–598.

Books

Must-read books - original sources, commentaries and collections

Depew, D.J.and Weber, B.H.(1995). Darwinism Evolving. System Dynamics and the Genealogy of Natural Selection. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

Driesch, H. (1908). The Science and Philosophy of the Organism. London: Adam and Charles Black.

Eigen, M. (1992). Steps Towards Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Goodwin, B.C., (1995). How the Leopard Changed its Spots. London: Orion.

Goodwin, B.C., and Saunders, P.(1992). Theoretical Biology. Epigenetic and Evolutionary Order from Complex Systems. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Kauffman, S.A. (1993). The Origins of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Kauffman, S.A. (1995). At Home in the Universe: The Search for Laws of Complexity. London: Viking.

Koestler, A. and Smythies, J.R. (1969). Beyond Reductionism. London: Hutchinson.

Levins, R. and Lewontin, R. (1985). The Dialectical Biologist. London: Harvard University Press.

Maynard Smith, J. and Vida, G. (1990). Organisational Constraints on the Dynamics of Evolution. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Piaget, J. (1971b). Biology and Knowledge. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Oyama, S. (2000). The Ontogeny of Information. Developmental Systems and Information. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press.

Piaget, J. (1979). Behaviour and Evolution. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.

Piaget, J. (1980a). Adaptation and Intelligence. London: University of Chicago Press.

Robinson, R.J.(in preparation). The Birth of Reason.

Thompson, D'A.W. (1961). On Growth and Form (abridged). Edited by J.T. Bonner. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Waddington, C.H. (1957). The Strategy of the Genes. London: Allen and Unwin.

Waddington, C.H. (ed.) (1969, 1972a). Towards a Theoretical Biology, vols.2 and 4. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Wallace, A.R. (1864). The origin of human races and the antiquity of man deduced from the ‘Theory of Natural Selection’. Journal of the Anthropolgical Society of London, 2: 158–187.

Papers

Key papers & discussions

Gould, S.J. and Lewontin, R.C. (1979). The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm: a critique of the adaptationist programme. Proc. R. Soc. London: Series B, 205: 581–598.

Goodwin, B.C.(1985). What are the causes of morphogenesis? BioEssays, 3, 32–36.

Maynard Smith, J., Burian, R., Kauffman, S.A., Alberch, P., Campbell, J., Goodwin, B., Lande, R., Raup, D. and Wolpert, L. (1985). Developmental constraints and evolution. Quarterly Review of Biology, 60, no.3.

Oyama, S. (2003). On having a hammer. In B.H. Weber and D.J. Depew (eds) (2003). Evolution and Learning. The Baldwin Effect Reconsidered. Pp.171–191. London: MIT Press

Journals

Journals that regularly carry valuable papers on this topic

Websites

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