The comparative biology of human nature
Philosophical Psychology 21 (3):425 – 436 (2008)
| Abstract | Model organismism—the over-reliance on model organisms without sufficient attention to the adequacy of the models—continues to hobble our understanding of human brains and behaviors. I outline the problem of model organismism in contemporary biology and biomedicine, and discuss the virtues of a genuinely comparative biology for understanding ourselves, our evolutionary history, and our place in nature. | |||||||||
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