The Structure of Evolutionary Theory

The Fruitful Facets of Galton's Polyhedron 465 only possible if the whole process of development is in any single case set in mo ...

466 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY evolutionary theory—did not disrupt the discussion, but only reclothed an old antithesi ...

CHAPTER SIX Pattern and Progress on the Geological Stage The Predominance of Biotic Competition and Its Sequelae A Geological Li ...

468 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY theory of natural selection provides no rationale for progress because the theory speak ...

Pattern and Progress on the Geological Stage 469 as a thoroughly sufficient theory of evolution unless this mechanism could also ...

470 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY that the earth's geological history proceed in a particular way: for the stage of envir ...

Pattern and Progress on the Geological Stage 471 to natural selection as the "gladiatorial theory" of existence and, in his famo ...

472 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY biotic and abiotic realms—but war and conquest, combat and death, provide the principal ...

Pattern and Progress on the Geological Stage 473 seed of the dandelion, and in the flattened and fringed legs of the water beetl ...

474 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY transmitted very far to other wedges in many lines of direction: beneath the surface we ...

Pattern and Progress on the Geological Stage 475 the inhabitants of the earth having been swept away at successive periods by ca ...

476 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY claim now strongly compromised by accumulating data on mass extinction— see Chapter 12) ...

Pattern and Progress on the Geological Stage 477 sentiment, felt by many paleontologists, that organization on the whole has pro ...

478 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY may almost be called living fossils; they have endured to the present day from having i ...

Pattern and Progress on the Geological Stage 479 into the disabling paradox analyzed in Chapter 2: palpable phenomena are unimpo ...

480 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY emerged as a serious option in a metaphorical sense, as embodied in Kelvin's argument f ...

Pattern and Progress on the Geological Stage 481 describing an earth with a "just right," intermediate and dependable level of g ...

482 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY in the 1850's, that the fossil record of vertebrates exhibited vectorial change, and wh ...

Pattern and Progress on the Geological Stage 483 then beget further fantasy with little hope for correction within an establishe ...

484 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY course, (claim that the demonization of catastrophism arose as a Darwinian plot, for Ly ...