Evolutionary Theory

Dickins, T.E. (2023.) The role of information in evolutionary biology. Acta Biotheoretica. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10441-023-09468-4 

Dickins, T.E., & Dickins, B.J.A (2023.) Introduction. In: Dickins, T.E. & Dickins, B.J.A. (Eds.) Evolutionary Biology: Contemporary and historical reflections upon core theory, Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-22028-9_1

Dickins, T.E. (2023.) On Rhetoric and Conceptual Frames: Response to Futuyma. In: Dickins, T.E. & Dickins, B.J.A. (Eds.) Evolutionary Biology: Contemporary and historical reflections upon core theory, Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-22028-9_28

Dickins, T.E. (2023.) Plasticity and information. In: Dickins, T.E. & Dickins, B.J.A. (Eds.) Evolutionary Biology: Contemporary and historical reflections upon core theory, Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-22028-9_26

Dickins, T.E. (2023.) Phenotypes, Organisms, and Individuals: A Commentary on Rodrigues and Gardner. In: Dickins, T.E. & Dickins, B.J.A. (Eds.) Evolutionary Biology: Contemporary and historical reflections upon core theory, Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-22028-9_21

Dickins, T.E. (2021.) Data and context. Biosemiotics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12304-021-09454-8 

Shuker, D.S. & Dickins, T.E. (2022.) Measuring heritability: why bother? (Commentary.) Behavioral and Brain Sciences,45, e175, DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x21001606

Dickins, T.E. (2021.) Ecological psychology, radical enactivism and behavior: An evolutionary perspective. Behavior and Philosophy, 49, 1-23

Dickins, T.E. (2018.) Selfish gene theory and levels of selection. In: H. Callan [Ed.] International Encyclopaedia of Anthropology. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118924396.wbiea1600

Dickins, T.E. & Dickins, B.J.A. (2018.) The Extent of the Modern Synthesis: The Foundational Framework for Evolutionary Biology. In: W. Burggren & B. Dubanksy [Eds.] Development and Environment. Springer. Pp. 155-176

Scott-Phillips, T.C., Laland, K.N., Shuker, D.M., Dickins, T.E., & West, S.A. (2014.) The niche construction perspective: A critical appraisal. Evolution, 68-5, 1231-1243

Scott-Phillips, T.C. & Dickins, T.E. (2014.) Group level traits can be studied with standard evolutionary theory. (Commentary.) Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 37 (3), 273-274

Dickins, T.E. & Barton, R.A. (2013.) Reciprocal causation and the proximate-ultimate distinction. Biology and Philosophy, 28 (5), 747-756

Dickins, T.E. & Rahman, Q. (2013.) Epigenetic adaptations: A reply to Suter, Boffelli and Martin. Proceedings of the Royal Society, B.; doi: 10:1098/rspb.2013.1820

Dickins, T.E. & Rahman, Q. (2012.) The Extended Evolutionary Synthesis and the role of soft inheritance in evolution. Proceedings of the Royal Society, B., 279, 2913-2921; doi: 10.1098/rspb.2012.0273 

Dickins, T.E. (2011.) Evolutionary Approaches to Behaviour. In: V. Swami (Ed.) Evolutionary Psychology: A Critical Introduction. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. Pp. 1-30

Brown, G., Dickins, T.E., Sear, R., & Laland, K. (2011.) Evolutionary accounts of human behavioural diversity. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, B, 366, 313-324

Scott-Phillips, T., Dickins, T.E., & West, S.A. (2011.) Evolutionary theory and the ultimate/proximate distinction in the human behavioural sciences. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 6 (1), 38-47 

Dickins, T.E. & Dickins, B.J.A. (2008.) Mother Nature’s Tolerant Ways: Why non-genetic inheritance has nothing to do with evolution. New Ideas in Psychology, 26, 41-54

Dickins, B.J.A., Dickins, D.W., & Dickins, T.E. (2008.) Is this conjectural phenotypic dichotomy a plausible outcome of genomic imprinting? (Commentary.) Behavioural and Brain Sciences, 31 (3), 267-268 

Dickins, T.E. & Dickins, B.J.A. (2007.) Designed calibration: Naturally selected flexibility, not non-genetic inheritance. (Commentary.) Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 30 (4), 368-369

Sear, R., Lawson, D. & Dickins, T.E. (2007.) Synthesis in the Human Evolutionary Behavioural Sciences. Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, 5, 3-28 

Dickins, T.E. (2006.) The phylogeny and ontogeny of adaptations. (Commentary.) Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 29 (3), 283-284

Dickins, T.E. (2005.) Can there ever be a non-specific adaptation? A response to Hampton. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 35 (3) 329-340

Dickins, T.E. (2003.) Possible phylogenies: The role of hypotheses, weak inferences, and falsification. (Commentary.) Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 26 (2), 219-220

Dickins, T.E. (1999.) The True and Wonderful Nature of Biological Determinism: A Response to F.A. Jenner. British Psychological Society, History and Philosophy of Psychology Newsletter, 28, 12 – 19