Philosophy of Biology
24 Michael Ruse than a comment, although it has certainly been enough for some contemporary philosophers to claim Darwin for the ...
Charles Darwin 25 individual contests. Of course, the struggle for existence may take place between an individual and nature, ra ...
26 Michael Ruse In the first place, as the reasoning powers and foresight of the members became improved, each man would soon le ...
Charles Darwin 27 existence,’ it would be the inferior and less favoured race that prevailed — and prevailed by virtue not of it ...
28 Michael Ruse or differentiated; and natural selection tends towards this end, inas- much as the parts are thus enabled to per ...
Charles Darwin 29 that carries his name? In one sense, no one can deny that he deserves some, a lot in fact. Before theOrigin of ...
30 Michael Ruse progressivist sentiments at its heart. Darwin made the idea of evolution serious. Thanks to him, the idea was no ...
Charles Darwin 31 1996; 2005]. People like Thomas Henry Huxley were determined to reform Victorian Britain, as were others in Am ...
32 Michael Ruse there a switch of world views — perhaps even a switch of worlds — that required more of a leap of faith than an ...
Charles Darwin 33 BIBLIOGRAPHY [Agassiz, 1885] E. C. Agassiz, ed.Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence.Boston: Houghton Mif ...
34 Michael Ruse [Darwin, 1969]C. Darwin.Autobiography.New York : Norton, 1969. [Darwin and Wallace, 1958]C. Darwin and A. R. Wal ...
Charles Darwin 35 [Ruse, 2000]M. Ruse.The Evolution Wars: A Guide to the Controversies. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, 200 ...
SIR RONALD AYLMER FISHER Robert A. Skipper, Jr. Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher (1890–1962) was, along with J. B. S. Haldane (1892– 196 ...
38 Robert A. Skipper, Jr. 2 AT ROTHAMSTED: A PERIOD OF INTENSE ACTIVITY In 1919, Fisher accepted a statistician’s post at Rotham ...
Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher 39 In finite populations, the variation in the number of offspring between individ- uals may result in ...
40 Robert A. Skipper, Jr. that ‘wide-ranging, much diffused and common species vary most’. [1922, p. 324] Consider next gene int ...
Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher 41 Fisher’s work discussed above and other work on, e.g., the evolution of domi- nance and mimicry, wou ...
42 Robert A. Skipper, Jr. Fisher’s “fundamental theorem of natural selection,” and is the centerpiece of his natural selection t ...
Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher 43 Figure 1. Graphical Representation of Fisher’s Geometric Model. Adapted from Burch and Chao [1999, 9 ...
44 Robert A. Skipper, Jr. most varied assumptions as to the accidental circumstances, and even the essential nature of the indiv ...
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