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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 (2,090 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 (6,867 words) - 00:14, 10 July 2024
  • critics view evolutionary psychology as a form of genetic reductionism and genetic determinism, a common critique being that evolutionary psychology does...
    163 KB (18,790 words) - 11:20, 19 July 2024
  • incompatible with determinism is called incompatibilism and encompasses both metaphysical libertarianism (the claim that determinism is false and thus...
    198 KB (24,905 words) - 09:24, 6 August 2024
  • Technological determinism is a reductionist theory in assuming that a society's technology progresses by following its own internal logic of efficiency...
    42 KB (5,506 words) - 22:45, 24 July 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...
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  • societies, sociobiology is closely allied to evolutionary anthropology, human behavioral ecology, evolutionary psychology, and sociology. Sociobiology investigates...
    31 KB (3,643 words) - 23:19, 4 July 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) - 20:52, 22 July 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 (5,167 words) - 03:16, 25 June 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...
    24 KB (3,098 words) - 20:28, 31 July 2024
  • cultures. Some critics view evolutionary psychology as influenced by genetic determinism and reductionism. Evolutionary psychology is based on the theory...
    100 KB (12,094 words) - 07:48, 17 June 2024
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    as follows: Dialectical determinism as opposed to mechanical, or formal-logical determinism, is also parametric determinism; it permits the adherent...
    60 KB (7,984 words) - 23:07, 12 July 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) - 05:48, 31 July 2024
  • Indeterminism (category Determinism)
    not caused, or are not caused deterministically. It is the opposite of determinism and related to chance. It is highly relevant to the philosophical problem...
    34 KB (4,359 words) - 05:51, 21 July 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 (4,631 words) - 18:44, 22 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kevin MacDonald (evolutionary psychologist)
    antisemitic conspiracy theorist, white supremacist, and retired professor of evolutionary psychology at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB). In 2008...
    50 KB (5,030 words) - 08:22, 4 August 2024
  • It has been argued by advocates of libertarian free will that to call determinism a rational statement is doubly self-defeating. To count as rational,...
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