Tag: natural selection
Theory in Crisis? Some Cautionary Words
Philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn was criticized for various inconsistencies in his argument.
Charles Darwin’s Freudian Slip
It looks like Darwin was as impressed as everyone else by the amazing ingenuity in orchids and could not ignore the evidence for design.
Rosenhouse’s Whoppers: The Environment as a Source of Information
Take a simple example, one that Rosenhouse finds deeply convincing and emblematic for biological evolution.
Why Darwin Eclipsed Wallace: The Role of Propaganda
To isolate and quantify the factors which ultimately led to the acceptance of Darwinian ideas is not a straightforward task.
Why Darwin Eclipsed Wallace: Darwin Comes to America
A less class-bound kind of protectiveness was shown to Darwin in the United States by Professor Asa Gray of Harvard University.