The Structure of Evolutionary Theory

Structural Constraints, Spandrels, and Exaptation 1187 adaptive utility in the Darwinian struggle for life ("final causes" in Ar ...

1188 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY Nevertheless, when philosophy bids us hearken and obey the lessons both of mechanical ...

Structural Constraints, Spandrels, and Exaptation 1189 life. By invoking an analogy to the limits of science in aesthetic and mo ...

1190 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY out of context in a book of course readings, have no inkling of its anchoring purpose ...

Structural Constraints, Spandrels, and Exaptation 1191 phyletically unique and distinctive forms (Figure 11-2); an explanation o ...

1192 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY In a third category, D'Arcy Thompson then considers geometrically regular growth patte ...

Structural Constraints, Spandrels, and Exaptation 1193 I choose this case (Figure 11-4) because D'Arcy Thompson invoked the conf ...

1194 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY membrane was inevitably bound, by molecular forces, to become a surface of the least p ...

Structural Constraints, Spandrels, and Exaptation 1195 selection need not be invoked at all, and as any kind of cause in this ca ...

1196 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY In what may be his most famous example, D'Arcy Thompson proved a case of direct constr ...

Structural Constraints, Spandrels, and Exaptation 1197 gravitational forces to which these features are adapted could play any r ...

1198 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY construction, of the underlying Bauplan—cannot be gainsaid at this level of complexity ...

Structural Constraints, Spandrels, and Exaptation 1199 heredity and phylogeny—for explaining the complex and intricately multiva ...

1200 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY of a grid, then the transformed grid itself would become a picture of the lines of for ...

Structural Constraints, Spandrels, and Exaptation 1201 a functionalist mechanism like natural selection (see my previous discuss ...

1202 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY Thompson emphasizes that "there is no argument against the theory of evolutionary desc ...

Structural Constraints, Spandrels, and Exaptation 1203 "types" to have arisen, now and then. Our argument indicates, if it does ...

1204 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY arguments that prevailed within evolutionary biology before the Modern Synthesis reins ...

Structural Constraints, Spandrels, and Exaptation 1205 "externalist" form of structuralism as deeply out of harmony with the int ...

1206 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY "conclusion" (pp. 607-611), he decries the standard tendency of the time (now happily ...