The Structure of Evolutionary Theory

lution in modern science. In particular, as Chapter 2 will discuss in detail, Darwin converted evolution from untestable specula ...

that selection needed to be amplified, reformulated and invigorated by other, noncontrary (and, at most, orthogonal) causes, not ...

time to break down, and a time to build up ... A time to rend, and a time to sew: a time to keep silence, and a time to speak." ...

thodox formulations for all three branches of essential Darwinian logic. To cite just one relevant example for each branch, theo ...

alized at all). But, speaking parochially as a student of the fossil record, I can at least say that the conceptual revolution i ...

Schneer, and with philosophers Nelson Goodman, Bonnie Hubbard, and George Geiger. (Geiger, my mentor at Antioch College, was the ...

of philosophers of science that no scientists read their journals or even encounter their analyses). Several key achievements in ...

sideration of major evolutionary concepts that still bear the originating stamp of a Victorian scientific context strongly commi ...

many scientists would now view as unduly restrictive in their designation of a privileged locus of causality, a single direction ...

tributions to the overall pattern of evolution. The same ordinary form of testability can be applied to any other contrast betwe ...

smoothly continuous when it does occur (representing the relatively quick transition that often accompanies a rebalancing of for ...

At the same time, and fortuitously, my 10th and last volume of monthly essays in Natural History Magazine, written without a sin ...

two points that I regard as most crucial to understanding the general argument through (or despite) conscious idiosyncrasies in ...

sence both because the logical structure of the theory so dictates, and because the history and current utility of the theory so ...

timacy with the world of science (knowing its norms in their bones, and its quirks and foibles in their daily experience) to lin ...

in its original and positive meaning, not in the currently more popular negative sense—"something said or written in defense or ...

changes). For, by the conventional rationale, the study of microevolution became virtually nonoperational in paleontology—as one ...

outward into a diverse and quirky network of concerns that seemed, to me and at first, isolated and uncoordinated, and that only ...

major at Antioch College, as his skepticism evoked my stronger insistence that our science matched his in reductionistic rigor b ...

the proper criterion for identifying higher-level selection (Lloyd and Gould, 1993; Gould and Lloyd, 1999), I think that we fina ...