Darwin's Legacy Research Articles

Is Reproductive Synchrony an Evolutionarily Stable Strategy for Hunter-Gatherers?

Previous articleNext article No AccessReportsIs Reproductive Synchrony an Evolutionarily Stable Strategy for Hunter-Gatherers?R. A. Foley, and C. M. FitzgeraldR. A. Foley Search for more articles by this author , and C. M. Fitzgerald Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Current Anthropology Volume 37, Number 3Jun., 1996 Sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/204516 Views: 5Total views on this site Citations: 4Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1996 The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological ResearchPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Amy L. Harris, Virginia J. Vitzthum Darwin's Legacy: An Evolutionary View of Women's Reproductive and Sexual Functioning, Journal of Sex Research 50, no.3-43-4 (Apr 2013): 207–246.https://doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2012.763085Thomas E Reed, Sarah Wanless, Michael P Harris, Morten Frederiksen, Loeske E.B Kruuk, Emma J.A Cunningham Responding to environmental change: plastic responses vary little in a synchronous breeder, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 273, no.16021602 (Jul 2006): 2713–2719.https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2006.3631 References, (Jan 2000): 379–462.https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-012487460-2/50013-1 C. Power , C. Arthur , and L. C. Aiello On Seasonal Reproductive Synchrony as an Evolutionarily Stable Strategy in Human Evolution, Current Anthropology 38, no.11 (Oct 2015): 88–91.https://doi.org/10.1086/204586

Dennett's intentions and Darwin's legacy

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Celebrating Darwin's Legacy

To find oneself cited sympathetically along with one's colleagues—notably Roger Masters, Glen Schubert, and Fred Willhoite—in an intellectual history by a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian is pleasant discovery. But it also constitutes something of a conflict of interest in pronouncing a judgment upon the work—it could, after all, turn out to be a disappointing dud. So it is doubly a pleasure, even allowing for an inevitable bias, to report that Carl Degler's In Search of Human Nature is a masterly account of the influence of Darwinism upon American social thought. (I was a bit troubled, though, by one or two omissions; there was no mention, for example, of Ellsworth Huntington among early Darwinis ts.)

The Period of Inception in Study of the Process of Scientific Creativity (Based on Darwin's Concept of the Origin of Species)

Darwin's work on the origin of the species provides splendid material for both the historian of science and the specialist in the psychology; it also provides insight into the logic of scientific creativity, primarily because the Darwin legacy—collected, published, and commented upon by numerous specialists—is an extremely variegated reflection of Darwin's work in creating his theory of the origin of the species. The legacy includes notebooks from a number of years, diaries, manuscripts of essays, correspondence with his scientific adversaries and friends, and autobiographical materials.1 Study of his personality and of characteristics of his scientific outlook began while Darwin was still alive. In particular, he answered Galton's survey questions on characteristics of his mind and personality. The numerous memoirs of his contemporaries are also an inseparable part of this legacy.