Deborah Charlesworth

Deborah Charlesworth

too long. It generates a cascade of subtle errors that ultimately accumulate to a distorted picture of the man and his science and indeed early Victorian scientific communities. A varied and overwhelming array of evidence demonstrates that Darwin did not avoid publishing his theory for 20 years.” The only evidence that has ever been put forward for Darwin’s delay is circumstantial or ambiguous ...

Profile of Brian Charlesworth.

National Academy of Sciences foreign associate Brian Charlesworth has been at the forefront of evolutionary genetics research for the last four decades. Using theoretical ideas to design experiments and experimental data as a stimulant for the development of theory, Charlesworth investigates fundamental life processes. His work has contributed to improved understanding of molecular evolution an...

Deborah McCollister

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For the entire Islamic tradition, the crowning glory of Aristotelian logic is the syllogistic theory outlined in the Prior and Posterior Analytics, especially the latter. The purpose of logic is to provide the means whereby knowledge is to be acquired, and the most valuable type of knowledge is that which is certain and necessary, that is, knowledge gained according to the paradigm of demonstra...