General Background

  • PDF | Lehrman, Daniel (1953) A critique of Konrad Lorenz's theory of instinctive behavior". The Quarterly Review of Biology 28 (4): 337-363.
  • PDF | Lehrmann, Daniel (1970) ‘Semantic and conceptual issues in the nature-nurture problem’, in: Development and Evolution of Behavior, ed. by R. Aronson, E. Tobach, D.S. Lehrman &J.S. Rosenblatt, San Francisco, Freeman: 17-52.
  • PDF | Oyama, Susan (2002), "The Nurturing of Natures", in Armin Grunwald, MatthiasGutmann and Eva M Neumann-Held (eds.), On Human Nature: Anthropological, Biological and Philosophical Foundations, Berlin: Springer, 163-170.
  • PDF | Moore, David (2001) The Dependent Gene: The Fallacy of “Nature vs. Nurture”. New York: Henry Holt. Chapters 12 and 13
  • PDF | Blumberg, M. S. (2005). Basic instinct: The genesis of behavior. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press. Chapter 2 "Designer Thinking"

Extended Inheritance Systems and Ontogenetic Niche Construction

  • PDF | Michael Meaney (2001) “Nature, Nurture, and the Disunity of Knowledge”. Annals New York Academy of Sciences 935:50-61.
  • PDF | Fish, Eric W., Dara Shahrokh, Rose Bagot, Christian Caldji, Timothy Bredy, Moshe Szyf, and Michael J. Meaney (2004) Epigenetic Programming of Stress Responses through Variations in Maternal Care.Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 1036: 167–180.
  • PDF | Jablonka, Eva, and Marion J. Lamb (2006) “Précis of: Evolution in Four Dimensions”, MIT Press. 2005. Behavioral and Brain Sciences (in press).
  • PDF | West, Meredith and Andrew King (1987) “Settling nature and nurture into an ontogenetic niche”. Developmenal Psychobiology 20 (5): 549-562.

Nativist Categories of Behavior

  • PDF | Griffiths, P.E (2002) What is Innateness? The Monist, 85(1): 70-85.

The Concepts Development, Learning, Experience, and Environment

  • PDF | Moore, Celia (2003) “Evolution, Development, and the Individual Acquisition of Trait: What we’ve learned since Baldwin”, in: Weber, Bruce H. and David J. Depew (eds), Learning and Evolution: The Baldwin Concept reconsidered. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press: 115-140.

Beyond Preformationism and Vitalism: an Epigenetic Understanding of Development

  • PDF | Robert, Jason Scott (2003) ‘Developmental Systems and Animal Behaviour’. A review of Susan Oyama, Evolution’s Eye: A Systems View of the Biology-Culture Divide, Duke University Press. Biology and Philosophy 18: 477–489, 2003.