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What Darwin Got Wrong
Cover of the first edition
AuthorsJerry Fodor
Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
SubjectEvolution
PublisherFarrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date
February 16, 2010
Media typePrint (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages288
ISBN0-374-28879-8

What Darwin Got Wrong is a 2010 book by philosopher Jerry Fodor and cognitive scientist Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, in which the authors criticize Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection. It is an extension of an argument first presented as "Why Pigs Don't Have Wings" in the London Review of Books.[1]

  1. ^ Fodor J (2007) Why Pigs Don't Have Wings. London Review of Books 29(20): 19-22. Letters, 29(21), 29(22), 29(23), 30(1)

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