Adaptationism

"Pan-adaptationism" is the idea that virtually all of the characteristics of living organisms are adaptations. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Search me; and search any kind of adaptationism I've heard of. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Could you give a short paragraph explanation of "pan-adaptationism"? ❋ Unknown (2009)

I discover (why am I not surprised?) that if you really want to annoy your friends and relations, you should write a paper attacking evolutionary adaptationism. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I will repeat that this is silly, because even though Dawkins is a seen as a significant proponent of adaptationism, it is not about what one person or another says. ❋ Unknown (2007)

ID works from a intelligent design inference that must assume a human-like intelligence, while adaptationism bases its prediction off a (blind) design mechanism. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The high tide of adaptationism floated a motley navy, but it may now be on the ebb. ❋ Unknown (2007)

July 19th, 2007 at 2: 18 pm do we give points to both ID and adaptationism if this turns out correct? ❋ Unknown (2007)

It is clear as well as ironic that if we are to concede ID's ability to predict (based on DIs), ID's prediction coincides with strict adaptationism. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Without one, the prediction of "lots of function" is best taken as vindication of adaptationism. ❋ Unknown (2007)

If we are to concede that ID can in fact predict "lots of function", do we give points to both ID and adaptationism if this turns out correct? ❋ Unknown (2007)

The ID prediction of a lot of function is still indistinguishable from strict adaptationism. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The debates over ˜adaptationism™ turned out to involve a diffuse set of worries about whether evolution produces optimal designs, the methodological role of optimality assumptions, and the explanatory goals of evolutionary theory. ❋ Griffiths, Paul (2008)

Dawkins never lost his fascination with vehicular adaptations, a fascination that his critics denigrate as Panglossian adaptationism. ❋ Hull, David (2008)

Assuming that she does not reject adaptationism altogether, the nativist will presumably be committed to the idea that the innate language organ, or faculty embodying knowledge of UG, was derived from pre-existing structures that were either functionless or had non-linguistic functions. ❋ Cowie, Fiona (2008)

My answer, as I gave him at that time, was that ID itself didn't take a stand on common descent, just like evolutionary theory itself didn't take a stand on the discussions of tradition gradualism vs. punctualism, adaptationism vs. structuralism, etc. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Indeed, as late as 2001 Ernst Mayr, one of the “deacons” of Darwinian adaptationism, thought it appropriate to state, in “What Evolution Is”: ❋ Unknown (2007)

The real schism in the meaning of the term “Darwinian” or its variations in modern times came when it was used in the 1970s, often in a pejorative sense, to describe strict adaptationism or strict gradualism. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Related Entries adaptation and adaptationism | altruism: biological | ❋ Holcomb, Harmon (2005)

That kid is such as [adaptationer], he’s had [19] [girlfriends] already. ❋ An Anonymous Adaptationer (2019)