Philosophy of Biology
4 Michael Ruse Geology at Cambridge University. But probably in part because of the isolation on theBeagle— Darwin took with him ...
Charles Darwin 5 There were two hypotheses. One was that there had been a lake that was now gone. The other was that the sea had ...
6 Michael Ruse then lets unbroken law do the job. In other words, Darwin moved from seeing miracles as the greatest evidence of ...
Charles Darwin 7 (notably including Herbert Spencer) was to be converted to evolution by Lyell’s exposition of Lamarck. They rea ...
8 Michael Ruse Darwin was not about to tell the scientific world of his conversion. The big problem with evolution in the late 1 ...
Charles Darwin 9 do is select rigorously and breed only from the desired forms. Darwin was well placed to pick up on this inform ...
10 Michael Ruse putting in contraceptives as Malthusian drill, Malthus himself was horrified at such practices.) Darwin saw that ...
Charles Darwin 11 THE “ORIGIN OF SPECIES.” Darwin referred to theOrigin as “one long argument,” and this is the way to read it. ...
12 Michael Ruse space I could quote numerous passages to this effect from highly com- petent authorities. Youatt, who was probab ...
Charles Darwin 13 The analogy was crucial for Darwin, for it was the empiricist’s way of saying that natural selection is a true ...
14 Michael Ruse (remembering that many more individuals are born than can possibly survive) that individuals having any advantag ...
Charles Darwin 15 and those produced during each former year may represent the long succession of extinct species. At each perio ...
16 Michael Ruse THE CONSILIENCE Convincing himself that he had done enough in this respect, Darwin now moved on to the rest of t ...
Charles Darwin 17 ungnawed, the planes of intersection between these spheres. It was really curious to note in cases of difficul ...
18 Michael Ruse have been created here; yet the close affinity of most of these birds to American species in every character, in ...
Charles Darwin 19 Some people get terribly excited by the fact that in theOriginDarwin never used the word “evolution,” and only ...
20 Michael Ruse Obviously this theory leaves as much unexplained as it explained. Cell theory was now being accepted universally ...
Charles Darwin 21 that left no doubt about our continuity with the apes. Charles Lyell also had things to say inThe Antiquity of ...
22 Michael Ruse (the two pretty birds displaying before the females). Sexual selection was introduced into theOrigin, although i ...
Charles Darwin 23 read Plato as a student (he claimed also to have read Aristotle), as well as more modern philosophers like Loc ...
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