5 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
American biologist who founded sociobiology — the application of evolutionary theory to social behavior — and was the world's foremost authority on ants and biodiversity.
American philosopher and developmental psychologist who proposed the Baldwin effect — learned behaviors can guide evolution — and contributed to genetic epistemology and developmental psychology.
Australian philosopher of biology at the University of Sydney who studies the evolution of mind and consciousness — most notably in octopuses and other cephalopods — whose Other Minds argues that cephalopod intelligence evolved entirely independently of vertebrate intelligence.
British evolutionary biologist who popularized the gene-centred view of evolution and has been the most prominent New Atheist public intellectual.
English biologist known as 'Darwin's Bulldog' who became the most vigorous public advocate for evolutionary theory and coined the term 'agnosticism' — modeling the displacement of religion by scientific naturalism.