Philosophy of BiologyElsevier, 2007. 2. 5. - 638페이지 Philosophy of Biology is a rapidly expanding field. It is concerned with explanatory concepts in evolution, genetics, and ecology. This collection of 25 essays by leading researchers provides an overview of the state of the field. These essays are wholly new; none of them could have been written even ten years ago. They demonstrate how philosophical analysis has been able to contribute to sometimes contested areas of scientific theory making. -Written by internationally acknowledged leaders in the field- Entries make original contributions as well as summarizing state of the art discoveries in the field- Easy to read and understand |
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... claim that that is what we have — and what we should have — in society. Unrestricted laissez faire, with widows and children going to the wall and the strong surviving and flourishing. Expectedly, most Social Darwinians have been a bit ...
... claim that that is what we have — and what we should have — in society. Unrestricted laissez faire, with widows and children going to the wall and the strong surviving and flourishing. Expectedly, most Social Darwinians have been a bit ...
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... claim: organisms, including humans, evolved. What about a more serious worry, that Darwin gets too much credit for the revolution? How much credit does Charles Robert Darwin merit for the revolution that carries his name? In one sense ...
... claim: organisms, including humans, evolved. What about a more serious worry, that Darwin gets too much credit for the revolution? How much credit does Charles Robert Darwin merit for the revolution that carries his name? In one sense ...
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... claim that Darwin was the first evolutionist or even the first with natural selection. (Do not forget Alfred Russel Wallace either.). Yet, having said all of this, Darwin's reputation emerges intact. Before Darwin evolution was still ...
... claim that Darwin was the first evolutionist or even the first with natural selection. (Do not forget Alfred Russel Wallace either.). Yet, having said all of this, Darwin's reputation emerges intact. Before Darwin evolution was still ...
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... claim. We have seen this again and again. Darwin was like Plato's Demiurge, shaping what he already had. This applied to ideas as well as facts. Everyone knew about Malthus, for instance, but it was Darwin's genius to put the ideas into ...
... claim. We have seen this again and again. Darwin was like Plato's Demiurge, shaping what he already had. This applied to ideas as well as facts. Everyone knew about Malthus, for instance, but it was Darwin's genius to put the ideas into ...
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... claim of his fundamental theorem by constructing plausible arguments about the precise balance of evolutionary factors. Thus, his piece meal consideration of the interaction between dominance, gene interaction, genetic drift, mutation ...
... claim of his fundamental theorem by constructing plausible arguments about the precise balance of evolutionary factors. Thus, his piece meal consideration of the interaction between dominance, gene interaction, genetic drift, mutation ...
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485 페이지 - It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometrical figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it; without these, one is wandering about in a dark labyrinth.
221 페이지 - I have already urged, the practice of that which is ethically best — what we call goodness or virtue — involves a course of conduct which, in all respects, is opposed to that which leads to success in the cosmic struggle for existence.
24 페이지 - The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable — namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience as soon as its intellectual powers had become as well developed, or nearly as well developed as in man.
111 페이지 - If such do occur, can we doubt (remembering that many more individuals are born than can possibly survive) that individuals having any advantage, however slight, over others, would have the best chance of surviving and of procreating their kind...
27 페이지 - As all the living forms of life are the lineal descendants of those which lived long before the Cambrian epoch, we may feel certain that the ordinary succession by generation has never once been broken, and that no cataclysm has desolated the whole world.
24 페이지 - I FULLY subscribe to the judgment of those writers * who maintain that of all the differences between man and the lower animals, the moral sense or conscience is by far the most important...
18 페이지 - It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and i..
18 페이지 - Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one...