The Structure of Evolutionary Theory

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scribed as a different kind of mental "thing." How, in short, can such an intellectual entity be defined? And what degree of cha ...

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its pre-Darwinian struggles with more inchoate formulations before 1859), these three principles of central logic defined the th ...

lated before, but in negative contexts, and with no appreciation of its power — see p. 137), and can only specify the guts of th ...

SCOPE. Even the most favorably minded of contemporaries often admitted that Darwin had developed a theory capable of building up ...

icon. But I also remembered Darwin's first choice for an organic metaphor or picture of branching to capture his developing view ...

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branches of the Darwinian essence in this particular picture—are also so essential that any severing of a complete branch either ...

firm outlines—for the revised structure of evolutionary explanation remains a work vigorously in progress, as only befits the na ...

that culminated in the Darwinian centennial celebrations of 1959). On the first branch of agency, the cut labeled Rl (see Fig. 1 ...

developmental saltationist who accepted the selectionist basis of adaptive change but felt that, at a sufficient relative freque ...