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The Mirage Of A Space Between Nature And Nurture By Evelyn Fox Keller (Review), David Depew
The Mirage Of A Space Between Nature And Nurture By Evelyn Fox Keller (Review), David Depew
David J Depew
No abstract provided.
Adaptation As Process: The Future Of Darwinism And The Legacy Of Theodosius Dobzhansky, David Depew
Adaptation As Process: The Future Of Darwinism And The Legacy Of Theodosius Dobzhansky, David Depew
David J Depew
Conceptions of adaptation have varied in the history of genetic Darwinism depending on whether what is taken to be focal is the process of adaptation, adapted states of populations, or discrete adaptations in individual organisms. I argue that Theodosius Dobzhansky’s view of adaptation as a dynamical process contrasts with so-called “adaptationist” views of natural selection figured as “design-without-a-designer” of relatively discrete, enumerable adaptations. Correlated with these respectively process and product oriented approaches to adaptive natural selection are divergent pictures of organisms themselves as developmental wholes or as “bundles” of adaptations. While even process versions of genetical Darwinism are insufficiently sensitive …
Paul Crook, Darwin’S Coat-Tails. Essays On Social Darwinism., David Depew
Paul Crook, Darwin’S Coat-Tails. Essays On Social Darwinism., David Depew
David J Depew
No abstract provided.
David Sedley, Creationism And Its Critics In Antiquity, David Depew
David Sedley, Creationism And Its Critics In Antiquity, David Depew
David J Depew
No abstract provided.