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Rhetoric and Composition

Selected Works

1995

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Darwinism Evolving: Systems Dynamics And The Genealogy Of Natural Selection, David Depew, Bruce Weber Dec 1994

Darwinism Evolving: Systems Dynamics And The Genealogy Of Natural Selection, David Depew, Bruce Weber

David J Depew

Darwinism Evolving examines the Darwinian research tradition in evolutionary biology from its inception to its turbulent present, arguing that recent advances in modeling the nonlinear dynamics of complex systems may well catalyze the next major phase of Darwinian evolutionism.While Darwinism has successfully resisted reduction to physics, the authors point out that it has from the outset developed and applied its core explanatory concept, natural selection, by borrowing models from dynamics, a branch of physics. The recent development of complex systems dynamics may afford Darwinism yet another occasion to expand its explanatory power.Darwinism's use of dynamical models has received insufficient attention …


The Search For An Integrational Account Of Language: Roy Harris And Conversation Analysis, David Fleming Dec 1994

The Search For An Integrational Account Of Language: Roy Harris And Conversation Analysis, David Fleming

David Fleming

No abstract provided.


Humans And Other Political Animals In Aristotle's History Of Animals, David J. Depew Dec 1994

Humans And Other Political Animals In Aristotle's History Of Animals, David J. Depew

David J Depew

No abstract provided.