Psychology
- 961
- Sport and genetics
- Stephen Jay Gould and Kipchoge Keino on why athletic achievement isn't in the genes.
- 963
- The Development of Herbert Spencer's Concept of Evolution
- A paper delivered to the Eleventh International Congress of the History of Science, Warsaw, August 1965 and published in Actes du Xle Congres International d'Histoire des Sciences Warsaw: Ossolineum, 1967, vol. 2, pp. 273-78.
- 964
- The Evolutionary Manifesto
- This paper by John Stewart uses an evolutionary worldview to derive an ethical system that will require humanity to develop the psychological capacity to transcend the dictates of our biological and cultural past.
- 965
- The Functions of the Brain: Gall to Ferrier (1808-1886)
- An online paper on mind, brain, and adaptation in the nineteenth century. It was published in Isis 59: 251-68, 1968.
- 966
- The Human Limits of Nature
- 'The Limits of Human Nature' was the title of the London Institute of Contemporary Arts winter lecture series for 1971-72. The distinguished group of contributors, included Alan Ryan, Arthur Koestler, David Bohm, Raymond Williams and John Maynard Smith. This contribution was published in J. Benthall, ed., 'The Limits of Human Nature' (Allen Lane, 1973), pp. 235-74.
- 967
- The Meanings of Darwinism: Then and Now?
- Charles Darwin grew up in Shrewsbury, Shropshire and attended Shrewsbury School for seven years. The school held a Millennium Conference on 'Darwinism and Ethics for the Next Millennium' on 16 October 1999. Papers were given by Mary Midgley, Matt Ridley, Colin Tudge and Robert M. Young.
- 968
- The Naturalization of Value Systems in the Human Sciences
- This essay first appeared as an Open University Course Unit for 'Science and Belief: from Darwin to Einstein', Block VI: Problems in the Biological and Human Sciences. Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1981, pp. 63-110.
- 969
- What if Human Nature Is Historical
- This essay moves from pure ideology about changing human nature to using biofeedback as a transitional topic to spelling out the desiderata for treating human nature as a historical project.
- 970
- Association of Ideas
- This essay appeared in Philip P. Wiener, ed., 'Dictionary of the History of Ideas'. (January 01, 1968)
- 971
- Animal Soul
- A history of the idea and a critique of reductionism. It appeared in Paul Edwards, ed., 'The Encyclopedia of Philosophy.' (January 01, 1967)
- 972
- Human Intelligence: Howard Gardner
- Biographical profile focusing on his contributions to the development of intelligence theory and testing.
- 973
- Mind, Brain and Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century
- A classic text on cerebral localization and its biological context from Gall to Ferrier.
- 977
- 'Animal traditions: Behavioural inheritance in evolution' reviewed by Herbert Gintis
- A skeptical assessment by Herbert Gintis.