Reconstructing the Past
Parsimony, Evolution, and Inference
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6524829 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elliott Sober (0000-0003-3130-1263) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Pages | 288 |
| Publication date | 1991-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Reviewed by | Reconstructing the Past: Parsimony, Evolution, and Inference, Peter Godfrey-Smith, 1993 |
| Reviewed by | Reconstructing the Past: Parsimony, Evolution, and Inference, James Griesemer, 1992 |
| Venue | Reconstructing the Past (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | The MIT Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| ISBN | 9780262691444 |
| Open Library | OL9622947M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 42 |
Cognitive psychology · Evolution · Life Sciences - Biology - General · Metaphysics & ontology · Science · Psychology · Biologia · Biological Evolution · Biologie · Biology · Cognitive Psychology · Einfachheit · Ethics, Evolutionary · Evolucio · Evolución · Evolution (Biology) · Evolutionstheorie · Filosofía de la biología · Filozofia · History · Philosophy · Psychology & Psychiatry
Testing times
Chimpocentrism and reconstructions of human evolution (a timely reminder)
Essentialism, history, and biological taxa
The performer’s experience
The evolution of musicality and cross-domain co-evolutionary interactions
Causation
Simplicity, one-shot hypotheses and paleobiological explanation
Catarrhine primate divergence dates estimated from complete mitochondrial genomes
Positively misleading errors
Philosophy of Experimental Biology
Evolutionary Theory in Philosophical Focus
The Craniofacial Evidence for Anthropoid and Tarsier Relationships
The Different Meanings of a Tarsioid — Anthropoid Clade and a New Model of Anthropoid Origin
A New Perspective on the Race Debate
Explaining the Social Contract
Homology and hominid phylogeny
The Historical Turn in the Study of Adaptation
Hot-Blooded Gluttons
Model Organisms are Not (Theoretical) Models
Black Box Inference
Explaining Human Diversity
Ultimate-Humeanism
Boas, Darwin, Science, and Anthropology
Assessing the Lower to Middle Paleolithic Transition
Are ABM explanations in the social sciences inevitably individualist
From idealizations to social practices in science
Part-whole science
Phylogenetic inference to the best explanation and the bad lot argument
Simple is not easy
Are there limits to scientists’ obligations to seek and engage dissenters
Symmetry breaking and the emergence of path-dependence
On background
A material dissolution of the problem of induction
The no-free-lunch theorems of supervised learning
Do homoiologies impede phylogenetic analyses of the fossil hominids? An assessment based on extant papionin craniodental morphology
Hominin homoiology
Temporally Asymmetric Inference in a Markov Process
Coherence, Consistency, and Cohesion
Theoretical virtues in eighteenth-century debates on animal cognition
On the nature of evolutionary explanations
Taxa hold little information about organisms
How primatology can inform us about the evolution of the human mind
| Citations per year | 1.31 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1991 - 2025 (35) |
| Highly cited | No |