Situating this book is critical for understanding trends in evolutionary thinking: from Waddington, to DST, evodevo, and the EES. Why the fundamental schism reach a crescendo in the mid-70s? And are 50 years enough to decide which heuristic proved more valuable? Join us at #psa26 to discuss.

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You may be wondering whether the key turning point is not the formulation of the Modern Evolutionary Synthesis. This is not wrong per se, but makes the story too simple and may obscure what really happened. This has implications for how we (should) study evolution today. ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/chal...

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The Selfish Gene is 50? The mid-70s were rich in debates on evolution: sociobiology, cultural evolution, the selfish gene, and more. The opposing camps were those emphasizing bottom-up causation driven by natural selection and those emph. multi-causation, epitomized by The Dialectical Biologist.

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Happy Friday! Here's a site I've built because I've been thinking about it & want to see more of it in the world: a space for describing and sharing scholarly skills that I've picked up and nurtured over the years. Also this is a no AI zone in at least two ways: no talking about it and no using it.

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Sometimes, I get excited when an interesting paper cites mine. But then, more often than not, the citation will only be something like 'This is a tricky issue (Jefferson 2022)' #academicsky

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