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    Determinism is the philosophical view that all events in the universe, including human decisions and actions, are causally inevitable. Deterministic theories...
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  • Biological determinism, also known as genetic determinism, is the belief that human behaviour is directly controlled by an individual's genes or some component...
    20 KB (2,092 words) - 21:09, 19 July 2024
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    Environmental determinism (also known as climatic determinism or geographical determinism) is the study of how the physical environment predisposes societies...
    56 KB (6,864 words) - 07:46, 16 August 2024
  • Technological determinism is a reductionist theory in assuming that a society's technology progresses by following its own internal logic of efficiency...
    36 KB (4,545 words) - 02:42, 9 November 2024
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    incompatible with determinism is called incompatibilism and encompasses both metaphysical libertarianism (the claim that determinism is false and thus...
    197 KB (24,693 words) - 00:32, 13 November 2024
  • critics view evolutionary psychology as a form of genetic reductionism and genetic determinism, a common critique being that evolutionary psychology does...
    163 KB (18,884 words) - 18:52, 9 November 2024
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    Economic determinism is a socioeconomic theory that economic relationships (such as being an owner or capitalist or being a worker or proletarian) are...
    7 KB (784 words) - 01:27, 23 May 2024
  • societies, sociobiology is closely allied to evolutionary anthropology, human behavioral ecology, evolutionary psychology, and sociology. Sociobiology investigates...
    31 KB (3,656 words) - 10:43, 17 November 2024
  • Evolutionary ethics is a field of inquiry that explores how evolutionary theory might bear on our understanding of ethics or morality. The range of issues...
    25 KB (3,130 words) - 20:58, 1 November 2024
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    Adaptive radiation (category Evolutionary biology terminology)
    Jonathan B (2010). "Adaptive Radiation, Ecological Opportunity, and Evolutionary Determinism". The American Naturalist. 175 (6): 623–639. doi:10.1086/652433...
    38 KB (4,632 words) - 15:16, 30 August 2024
  • Evolutionary approaches to depression are attempts by evolutionary psychologists to use the theory of evolution to shed light on the problem of mood disorders...
    42 KB (5,175 words) - 22:21, 26 September 2024
  • century and part of the wider debate about evolutionary psychology and the modern synthesis of evolutionary biology. Wilson popularized the term "sociobiology"...
    39 KB (4,737 words) - 20:50, 8 May 2024
  • cultures. Some critics view evolutionary psychology as influenced by genetic determinism and reductionism. Evolutionary psychology is based on the theory...
    100 KB (12,137 words) - 15:10, 6 November 2024
  • that they are the outcome of evolutionary adaptations. At the same time when the Chomskyan paradigm of biological determinism defeated humanism, it was losing...
    45 KB (4,651 words) - 22:36, 18 September 2024
  • themselves as "respectively an evolutionary geneticist, a neurobiologist, and a psychologist." They criticize biological determinism and reductionism, and state...
    31 KB (3,898 words) - 14:36, 6 August 2024
  • Richard Lewontin (category American evolutionary biologists)
    Lewontin strongly opposed genetic determinism and neodarwinism as expressed in the fields of sociobiology and evolutionary psychology. Previously, as a member...
    29 KB (3,146 words) - 21:06, 16 July 2024
  • The history of evolutionary psychology began with Charles Darwin, who said that humans have social instincts that evolved by natural selection. Darwin's...
    15 KB (1,925 words) - 07:47, 7 May 2023
  • Diffusion of innovations Dual inheritance theory Economic determinism Edward Burnett Tylor Evolutionary anthropology Environmental racism Extended order Franz...
    113 KB (14,427 words) - 04:00, 17 October 2024
  • Biology (Editor) 1981, Allison & Busby, ISBN 0850314259 Against Biological Determinism (Editor), 1982, Schocken, ISBN 0805281126 Not in Our Genes (With Richard...
    15 KB (1,355 words) - 06:39, 16 November 2024
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    antisemitic conspiracy theorist, white supremacist, and retired professor of evolutionary psychology at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB). MacDonald...
    52 KB (5,271 words) - 15:43, 18 October 2024
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