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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham ten years ago, darwin's black box launched the intelligent design movement: the argument that nature exhibits evidence of design, beyond darwinian randomnessfrom one end of the spectrum to the other, darwin's black box has established itself as the key text in the intelligent design movement, the one argument that must be addressed in order to determine whether darwinian evolution is sufficient to explain life as we know it, or notsome parts of the biological world must have been designedthe intelligent design movement was born when a handful of scientists realized that nature exhibits characteristics that could not have evolved by random mutationmicrobiology has discovered staggering complexity at the cellular level of life and during his research behe made a stunning discovery: some parts of life are irreducibly complexthey cannot function without all of their partsat last, michael behe has updated the book with a major new afterword on the state of the debatesee oxfam website for delivery information read moretoday the movement is stronger than ever, and the book is a classic and an international bestselleryet step-by-step genetic mutations would never produce all of those parts together at onceprominent among them was michael behe, a microbiologist working in a field that darwin could not even have imagined existing
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Thagard examines the copernican and the darwinian revolutions and the emergence of newton's mechanics, lavoisier's oxygen theory, einstein's theory of relativity, quantum theory, and the geological theory of plate tectonicsin this path-breaking work, paul thagard draws on the history and philosophy of science, cognitive psychology, and the field of artificial intelligence to develop a theory of conceptual change capable of accounting for all major scientific revolutionshe discusses the psychological mechanisms by which new concepts and links between them are formed, and advances a computational theory of explanatory coherence to show how new theories can be judged to be superior to previous onesthagard provides a new and comprehensive perspective on the transformation of scientific conceptual systemssee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music wells a very good clean copy of this hard cover book with no internal markings or annotations and no damage to the dust jacketthe history of science contains dramatic episodes of revolutionary change in which whole systems of concepts have been replaced by new systems
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Good reasons for bad feelings will fascinate anyone who wonders how our minds can be so powerful, yet so fragile, and how love and goodness came to exist in organisms shaped to maximize darwinian fitnessoxfam shop wetherby as new condition hardbackone of the world's most respected psychiatrists provides a much-needed new evolutionary framework for making sense of mental illnesswith his classic book why we get sick, randolph nesse established the field of evolutionary medicinedrawing on revealing stories from his own clinical practice and insights from evolutionary biology, nesse shows how negative emotions are useful in certain situations, yet can become excessivelow mood prevents us from wasting effort in pursuit of unreachable goals, but it often escalates into pathological depressiontaken together, these insights and many more help to explain the pervasiveness of human suffering, and show us new paths for relieving itnow he returns with a book that transforms our understanding of mental disorders by exploring a fundamentally new questionanxiety protects us from harm in the face of danger, but false alarms are inevitableother mental disorders, such as addiction and anorexia, result from the mismatch between modern environments and our ancient human pastinstead of asking why certain people suffer from mental illness, nesse asks why natural selection has left us with fragile minds at allsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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" french philosopher of science michel serres states that girard's theory provides a darwinian theory of culture because it "proposes a dynamic, shows an evolution and gives a universal explanation" this major claim has, however, remained underscrutinized by scholars working on girard's theory, and it is mostly overlooked within the natural and social sciencesthe contributors provide major evidence in favor of girard's hypothesisequally, girard's theory is presented as having the potential to become for the human and social sciences something akin to the integrating framework that present-day biological science owes to darwin-something compatible with it and complementary to it in accounting for the still remarkably little understood phenomenon of human emergenceoxfam books & music lancaster from his groundbreaking violence and the sacred and things hidden since the foundation of the world, rené girard's mimetic theory is presented as elucidating "the origins of culturesee oxfam website for delivery information read more" he posits that archaic religion (or "the sacred"), particularly in its dynamics of sacrifice and ritual, is a neglected and major key to unlocking the enigma of "how we became humanjoining disciplinary worlds, this book aims to explore this ambitious claim, invoking viewpoints as diverse as evolutionary culture theory, cultural anthropology, archaeology, cognitive psychology, ethology, and philosophy
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