The Structure of Evolutionary Theory

Seeds of Hierarchy 245 prevail over other variants in more central environments? After all, the more central ancestor continues ...

246 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY drought, but not at the same time enduring an equal amount of moisture with the parent ...

Seeds of Hierarchy 247 of nature; for although the structure of each organism stands in the most direct and important relation t ...

248 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY by organismal selection alone founders on three bases, the first two negative in logica ...

Seeds of Hierarchy 249 considering the principle of divergence as a problem in levels of selection can resolve Wallace's puzzlin ...

250 THE STRUCTURE OE EVOLUTIONARY THEORY became stymied, and eventually surrendered, with pleasure in Weismann's case at least, ...

CHAPTER FOUR Internalism and Laws of Form: Pre-Darwinian Alternatives to Functionalism Prologue: Darwin's Fateful Decision Think ...

252 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY agreement in structure, which we see in organic beings of the same class, and which is ...

Internalism and Laws of Form 253 in national styles. As a young man, Darwin adored Paley's Natural Theology (see p. 116); later, ...

254 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY (and even privileges) another interpretation. Suppose that Unity of Type records no mys ...

Internalism and Laws of Form 255 growth. We reject the first two today, and Darwin also grants them little space by his qualifie ...

256 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY secondary modifications upon this fundamental action. In the closing paragraph of Chapt ...

Internalism and Laws of Form 257 as the old Unity of Type theorists held, but partnership with adaptation remains a reasonable a ...

258 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY But many 19th century biologists, and many evolutionists in our day again, feel that Da ...

Internalism and Laws of Form 259 represent traits that, at their origin in an ancestor, arose as either adaptations or constrain ...

260 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY contribution by adding a dimension for history, and by formulating a theory that grante ...

Internalism and Laws of Form 261 alternatives. Very few creationists could imagine that species might be purposely ill formed, o ...

262 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY In this section I shall contrast the two great texts of these alternative traditions—Pa ...

Internalism and Laws of Form 263 to answer; who comprehended its construction, and designed its use (Paley, 1803, p. 203—I am us ...

264 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY Paley identifies God's work as incomparably superior to any human art. If the existence ...