Alexander Etkind
Alexander Etkind
This paper examines the available evidence on one of the most radical ideas in the history of eugenics and utopianism. In the mid-1920s, the zoology professor Ilia Ivanov submitted to the Soviet government a project for hybridizing humans a...
Eugenic and sexual folklores and the castration of sex offenders in the Netherlands (1938-1968) [0.03%]
优生及性的民间传说与荷兰对性犯罪者的绝育（1938-1968）
Theo van der Meer
Theo van der Meer
This contribution questions the positive/negative eugenics dichotomy that typifies the historiography on the eugenic movement in the Netherlands and the claim that this movement was mostly marginal because only positive eugenics was pursued...
Havelock Ellis, eugenicist [0.03%]
艾略斯与优生学
Ivan Crozier
Ivan Crozier
This article examines the contributions made towards eugenic thought in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by Havelock Ellis (1859-1939). Ellis was a significant social reformer who worked on the problems of sexuality from a ...
Magdalena Gawin
Magdalena Gawin
This paper focuses on the relations between a liberal group of sex reformers, consisting of writers and literary critics, and physicians from the Polish Eugenics Society in interwar Poland. It illustrates the paradoxes of the mutual co-oper...
Ludovica Lorusso,Giovanni Boniolo
Ludovica Lorusso
We inquire into the notions of 'boundary' and 'cluster' in the fields of medical genetics, pharmacogenetics, and population genetics. First we show that the two notions are not well discussed in literature. Then we propose a promising expli...
Tom Walker
Tom Walker
Psychological altruism (being motivated by the needs of others) has a tendency to produce behaviour that is costly in evolutionary terms. How, then, could the capacity for psychological altruism evolve? One suggestion is that it is the resu...
Is the language of intentional psychology an efficient tool for evolutionists? [0.03%]
意向心理学对于进化论者而言是否是一种有效的工具？
Björn Brunnander
Björn Brunnander
The language of intentional psychology is commonly used as a means of addressing issues concerning selection. This habit is generally considered an efficient shorthand, but oft-reported misunderstandings leave room for doubt. I stress the g...
Why don't zebras have machine guns? Adaptation, selection, and constraints in evolutionary theory [0.03%]
为什么斑马没有机关枪？进化理论中的适应、选择和限制
Timothy Shanahan
Timothy Shanahan
In an influential paper, Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Lewontin (1979) contrasted selection-driven adaptation with phylogenetic, architectural, and developmental constraints as distinct causes of phenotypic evolution. In subsequent publicat...
Loes Knaapen,George Weisz
Loes Knaapen
This essay traces the history of premenstrual syndrome (PMS) in French, British, and American medical literature from 1950 to 2004. Aetiological theories, treatments and diagnostic criteria have varied over time and place, reflecting local ...