Thomas Junker. „Geheimwaffe Kunst: Eine neue evolutionsbiologische Theorie.“ Darwins langer Arm – Evolutionstheorie heute. Hrsg. von Heinz-Ulrich Reyer und Paul Schmid-Hempel. Reihe Zürcher Hochschulforum, Bd. 47. Zürich: vdf Hochschulverlag an der ETH, 2011, S. 155-168.
Thomas Junker. „Schönheit und andere Provokationen – Eine neue evolutionsbiologische Theorie der Kunst.“ In Der Mensch – Evolution, Natur und Kultur. Hrsg. von Jochen Oehler. Berlin: Springer, 2010, S. 91-107.
Newer biological theories attribute important adaptive functions to human art and thus provide an important, so far mostly overlooked factor that may explain the survival of modern humans and the disappearance of the Neanderthals. The oldest known objects unambiguously identifiable as art were found in Central and Western Europe and date from around 36,000 years ago. According to all that we know, they were created solely by modern humans who had migrated from Africa to Europe just a few thousand years before. Thus art seems to be the only fundamentally new characteristic that the ancestors of today’s humans possessed compared to earlier and other hominids (e.g. Neanderthals or Homo erectus) and that can be proven on the basis of archaeological finds. Although this historical reconstruction is widely accepted no causal connection is seen between the ability of modern humans to produce art and their stunning evolutionary success. How would a Darwinian explanation of art look like? Does it help to understand the origins of art and its enormous significance for individuals and social groups?
Thomas Junker. „Art as a biological adaptation, or: Why modern humans replaced the Neanderthals,” Quartär: Internationales Jahrbuch zur Erforschung des Eiszeitalters und der Steinzeit / International Yearbook for Ice Age and Stone Age Research 57 (2010): 171-178.
Thomas Junker. „Wer hat Angst vor der Evolution? Oder: Was sagt die Biologie zum Sinn des Lebens?“ In Naturwissenschaften und Theologie. Methodische Ansätze und Grundwissen zum interdisziplinären Dialog. Hrsg. von Joachim Weinhardt. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2010, S. 83-97.
Thomas Junker. „Der Darwin-Code: Die Evolution erklärt den Sinn des Lebens.“ In Weltordnungen. Herausgegeben von Gregor Maria Hoff. Innsbruck, Wien: Tyrolia, 2009, S. 127-143.
Thomas Junker & Sabine Paul. „Der Darwin-Code: Die revolutionären Konsequenzen der Evolutionstheorie.“ In Happy Birthday, Charly! Redebeiträge von Charles Darwin, Thomas Junker, Ulrich Kutschera, Sabine Paul, Michael Schmidt-Salomon und Franz M. Wuketits. Schriftenreihe der Giordano Bruno Stiftung, 3. Aschaffenburg: Alibri, 2009, S. 17-35.
Thomas Junker. „Die evolutionäre Logik der Selbstmordattentate,“ Diesseits 23 (2009), no. 2: 25-27.
Thomas Junker. „The downfall of civilised nations in the light of biology: Erwin Baur’s Darwinian Doomsday Science (1922/32),” Annals of the History and Philosophy of Biology 13 (2008): 53-65.
Thomas Junker. „Die Bedeutung der Evolutionstheorie für die moderne Sicht des Menschen.” In Zufall Mensch? Das Bild des Menschen im Spannungsfeld von Evolution und Schöpfung. Hg. von Lars Klinnert. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2007, S. 25-39.
Thomas Junker. „Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, Stephen Jay Gould und die natürliche Einheit der Menschen.“ In Physische Anthropologie – Biologie des Menschen. Beiträge zur 14. Jahrestagung der DGGTB in Göttingen 2005. Verhandlungen zur Geschichte und Theorie der Biologie, Bd. 13. Berlin: Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung, 2007, S. 17-28.
Thomas Junker. „Missbrauchte Evolution? Biologismus im Laufe der Zeit.“ In Wunder Mensch – Triumph der Evolution. Gütersloh/ München: Wissen Media Verlag, 2006, S. 440-43.
Thomas Junker. Die Evolution des Menschen. Reihe Beck Wissen. München: C. H. Beck Verlag, 2006. 2., durchgesehene Aufl. München: C. H. Beck Verlag, 2008.
Thomas Junker. „Biologie und gesellschaftliche Reformprojekte in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts.“ In Tamás Meleghy & Heinz-Jürgen Niedenzu, Hgg. Soziale Evolution. Die Evolutionstheorie und die Sozialwissenschaften. Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie, Sonderband 7. Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag, 2003, S. 316-30.
Uwe Hoßfeld & Thomas Junker. „Anthropologie und synthetischer Darwinismus im Dritten Reich: Die Evolution der Organismen (1943),“ Anthropologischer Anzeiger 61 (2003): 85-114.
Sabine Paul & Thomas Junker. „Evolutionäres Zufallsereignis: Eugenische Aspekte der Gentechnik – Lotterie der Natur oder genetische Selbstbestimmung,“ Freitag no. 49, 1. Dezember 2000, S. 11.
Thomas Junker & Sabine Paul. „Der Zwang des Globalen,“ Zeitschrift für KulturAustausch 50 (2000), no. 3: 58-60.
Sabine Paul & Thomas Junker. „Reproduktionsmedizin, Gentechnik und die Angst vor der Eugenik,“ Forum Sexualaufklärung und Familienplanung (Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung) (2000), no. 1/2: 35-41.
Thomas Junker & Sabine Paul. „Das Eugenik-Argument in der Diskussion um die Humangenetik: eine kritische Analyse.“ In Biologie und Ethik. Hg. von Eve-Marie Engels. Universal-Bibliothek, Nr. 9727. Stuttgart: Philipp Reclam jun., 1999, S. 161-93.
"Recently a revised and expanded edition of Stephen Jay Gould’s classic The Mismeasure of Man has been published. [...] Gould claims that [... Johann Friedrich] Blumenbach has changed „the mental geometry of human order to a scheme that has promoted conventional racism ever since.“ (p. 405). Gould’s central claim is that Blumenbach „ended up with a system (see the accompanying illustration from his treatise) that placed a single race at the pinnacle of closest approach to the original creation, and then envisioned two symmetrical lines of departure from this ideal toward greater and greater degeneration.“ (p. 410, emphasis added). [...] The illustration, however, is not from Blumenbach’s Treatises, but a construction by Gould. In the Treatises we find a completely different picture: a horizontal arrangement of the skulls. [...]
It is obvious that with the original illustration by Blumenbach Gould’s argument would have collapsed to a large extent. Of course, Blumenbach might have ‘implied’ a triangle that would have given a visual representation of his supposedly hierarchical model, and it was only Gould who has discovered this intention. Blumenbach, however, choose a horizontal arrangement [...]. In a way this misrepresentation seems to confirm the constructionist notion, mentioned by Gould, that „unconscious presupposition always influence our analysis and organization of presumably objective data“ (p. 49). On the other hand this cannot be taken as an excuse for an obvious distortion of historical facts based on modern projections."
Stephen Jay Gould: On Mental and Visual Geometry (1998)
"I thank Thomas Junker for his correction to the illustration of Blumenbach’s skulls that accompanies the reprint of my essay, originally written for Discover Magazine (1994), in the revised version of The Mismeasure of Man (1996). Blumenbach’s original depicts these skulls on a line, with the Caucasian example in the center. The version prepared by the Norton book designers converted this line into a wedge, with the Caucasian skull at the apex. [...] My argument rests entirely upon Blumenbach’s text. I never mention or cite his figure at all (except in a parenthetical remark, inserted by the editors to reference the added illustration). I don’t think that I even knew about the figure when I wrote the article, for I worked from a photocopy of Blumenbach’s text alone. The version that accompanies my essay, drawn and inserted by the editors, does epitomize my argument in a useful way (especially for the non-professional readers targeted by Discover and, later, by my book), but it remains superfluous and additional to my intent and analysis." [...]
Thomas Junker. „Critiques and Contentions: Blumenbach’s Racial Geometry,“ Isis 89 (1998): 498-501.
Response: Stephen Jay Gould: „On Mental and Visual Geometry,“ Isis 89 (1998): 502-04.
Thomas Junker. „Eugenik, Synthetische Theorie und Ethik. Der Fall Timoféeff-Ressovsky im internationalen Kontext.“ In Ethik der Biowissenschaften: Geschichte und Theorie. Hg. von Eve-Marie Engels, Thomas Junker und Michael Weingarten. Verhandlungen zur Geschichte und Theorie der Biologie, Bd. 1. Berlin: Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung, 1998, S. 7-40.
Thomas Junker. „Kulturpessimismus und Genetik: Von Weimar zum Dritten Reich,“ Biologisches Zentralblatt 115 (1996): 145-52.