Tag: anthropocentrism
Man, with His Special Place in Nature, Was Designed to Use Fire
Only a special type of being very close to our own biological design could have taken the first and vital step to technological enlightenment, fire-making.
Denton: Return of the Man Hypothesis
Scientific discoveries have revitalized the outlook that placed man at the center of the cosmos, not in a physical but in a metaphysical sense.
Rats Are People, Too!
A philosopher and a bioethicist want a “Jane Goodall” to come forward as “an ambassador for rats.”
Farewell to John Lukacs: A Great Historian, and an Unequivocal Darwin Doubter
Unlike many of his academic colleagues, Lukacs did not stand in awe and wonder of Charles Darwin.
The Neo-Darwinian Synthesis: A Fable Told by Ernst Mayr
Mayr worked tirelessly to establish a synthesis bearing the unmistakable stamp of positivism.
