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This paper recalls the famous discussion on adaptationism put forward in 1979 by Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Lewontin, in which the work of Voltaire "Candide or optimism" was used to contextualizes some tendencies when reconstructing the evolutionary past of the human mind. The theoretical considerations by Daniel C. Dennett's "panglossian reasoning' or "adaptationist program" are essential for the further empirical research in evolutionary psychology. It becomes impossible to historize the mind without a vindication of Pangloss, stronghold of the "reason" inherent in any optimal solution in nature, recognizing as well the constraints imposed by randomness and contingency. Finally, the text presents a set of criteria that should guide the explanations about the mind's past, taking the cautious stand of Martin and Candide towards the findings of Pangloss about the "rationale" of things arranged in the world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper connects the biological function concept with adaptations in order to clarify the former. In this way, it is proposed that adaptations— defined in present and non-historical terms—are functional. Hence, the term function is equivalent to the concept of adaptation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Adaptation is a central and widely discussed concept in modern evolutionary biology; however, it is necessary to rethink its significance given the complexity of the adaptive phenomenon, the development of biology and the emergence of new disciplinary fields in recent years. In this sense, we address the need to develop new conceptual perspectives that may provide a better understanding of this phenomenon. This paper aims to analyze the advantages of a modular approach in developing a more comprehensive notion of adaptation. A modular concept of adaptation would solve diverse kinds of problems, for example, the integration between the different levels of biological organization that are involved necessarily in every adaptive process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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