John Beatty

University of British Columbia — Canada

Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences

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Research Topics

Philosophy and History of Science(27), Evolution and Science Education(20), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics(11), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation(8), Media Studies and Communication(3)

Publications83 total

<i>Darwin and Hume’s</i> Dialogues
Cambridge University Press eBooks·2025
Remembering Richard Lewontin (1929–2021)
Biological Theory·2021· 8 citedOpen Access
The Creativity of Natural Selection? Part II: The Synthesis and Since
Journal of the History of Biology·2019· 22 cited
Narrative possibility and narrative explanation
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A·2017· 59 cited
The Creativity of Natural Selection? Part I: Darwin, Darwinism, and the Mutationists
Journal of the History of Biology·2016· 56 cited
Britain and the American Revolution
2016
Perceptions of online styles of news video production
Journal of Visual Literacy·2016· 8 cited
Book Review: <i>Digital Shift: The Cultural Logic of Punctuation</i> by Jeff Scheible
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly·2016
What are narratives good for?
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences·2016· 50 cited
Post-television news: Perceptions of three online forms of news video production
2014
Book Review: <i>Videojournalism. Multimedia Storytelling</i>, by Kenneth Kobré
Journalism & Mass Communication Educator·2014
Darwin’s cyclopean architect
Evolutionary Biology·2014· 23 cited
Chance and Design
Cambridge University Press eBooks·2013· 3 cited
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Darwin and Evolutionary Thought
Cambridge University Press eBooks·2013· 42 cited
Toward a Lawful History of Life <b>Rereading the Fossil Record</b> The Growth of Paleobiology as an Evolutionary Discipline <b> <i>by David Sepkoski</i> </b> University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2012. 400 pp. $55, £35.50. ISBN 9780226748559.
Science·2012
When What Had to Happen Was Not Bound to Happen: History, Chance, Narrative, Evolution
Journal of the Philosophy of History·2011· 27 cited
Should We Aim for Consensus?
Episteme·2010· 91 cited
Reconsidering the Importance of Chance Variation
The MIT Press eBooks·2010· 1 cited
Reconsidering the Importance of Chance Variation
The MIT Press eBooks·2010· 35 cited
Chance Variation and Evolutionary Contingency: Darwin, Simpson, <i>The Simpsons</i>, and Gould
Oxford University Press eBooks·2009· 20 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

Gerd Gigerenzer(3), Zeno G. Swijtink(3), Lorraine Daston(3), Lorenz Krüger(3), Michael Ruse(3), Diane Β. Paul(2), Elliott Sober(2), Theodore Porter(2), Theodore M. Porter(1), Susan K. Mills(1), Alfred Moore(1), Susan Finsen(1), Robert N. Brandon(1), Michael Ruse(1), Jeremy Kirby(1), David Norman(1), Paul D. Brinkman(1), Jonathan Hodge(1), Mary P. Winsor(1), Marsha L. Richmond(1)