The Structure of Evolutionary Theory

Internalism and Laws of Form 325 begins his treatise with an incisive argument, cutting to the heart of Paley's error in ignorin ...

326 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY mode of effecting the purpose, as the reason which might be assigned for the great numb ...

Internalism and Laws of Form 327 by so identifying him in the Origin and other writings—and Darwin cannot be entirely blamed for ...

328 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY The great names to which the steady inductive advance of zoology has been due during th ...

Internalism and Laws of Form 329 Consider Darwin's two principal apostasies from Owen's point of view. First, Darwin reconfigure ...

330 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY Darwin's Strong but Limited Interest in Structural Constraint Darwin's Debt to Both Pol ...

Internalism and Laws of Form 331 in 1838 and publication in 1859, lay in abandoning an original belief in perfect adaptation, an ...

332 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY that should define the basic attributes of Darwinism. The theory of natural selection i ...

Internalism and Laws of Form 333 (and his borrowed example from Owen surely indicates respect and attention). Darwin linked the ...

334 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY of the relative frequency tradition—see pp. 255-256). Natural selection builds a featur ...

Internalism and Laws of Form 335 out the two orders of Mammalia which are most abnormal in their dermal covering, viz. Cetacea ( ...

336 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY (1859, p. 144). (Note Darwin's interesting linguistic choice in designating this exampl ...

Internalism and Laws of Form 337 bones arrest their development and shorten them, and this affects the position of the subsequen ...

338 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY head and limbs tend to vary together in shape and even in color; but several highly com ...

Internalism and Laws of Form 339 And yet, though Darwin now presents more examples of correlated variability than he had provide ...

340 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY slight difference in the offspring from their parents, and a cause for each must exist, ...

Internalism and Laws of Form 341 of variation (shapes of stones) "bear no relation to the living structure which is slowly built ...

CHAPTER FIVE The Fruitful Facets of Galton's Polyhedron: Channels and Saltations in Post-Darwinian Formalism Galton's Polyhedron ...

The Fruitful Facets of Gabon's Polyhedron 343 century thought (lest this section become a multivolumed book in itself). I will, ...

344 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY will, in subsequent generations, regress towards the mean, and no permanent or directio ...