Getting to Darwin: Obstacles to Accepting Evolution by Natural Selection

Getting to Darwin: Obstacles to Accepting Evolution by Natural Selection

Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection is central to modern biology, but is resisted by many people. This paper discusses the major psychological obstacles to accepting Darwin’s theory. Cognitive obstacles to adopting evolution by natural selection include conceptual difficulties, methodological issues, and coherence problems that derive from the intuitiveness of alternative theories...

Evolution by Natural Selection

The first published expression of the theory of evolution by natural selection was printed July 1, 1858, in the Journal of the Linnaean Society of London in the form of two essays: one by Charles Darwin and one by Alfred Russel Wallace. These two essays, along with Darwin's preliminary Sketch of 1842 and his Essay of 1844 (neither of which were published until 1909), and a foreword by Sir Gavin...

The theory of natural selection presented by Darwin and Wallace

The texts discussed here are taken from the Journal of Proceedings of the Linnean Society (vol. III, 1859). The texts appear in this order: Letter dated 30 June 1858 from Charles Lyell and Joshua Hooker presenting the subsequent documents. Extract of an unpublished work on species by Charles Darwin; Extract of a letter from Charles Darwin to A. Gray (Boston), 5 September 1857; Article from Febr...

Conditions for Evolution by Natural Selection*

Getting to Know the Nominal Group Technique

سخن سردبیر Editorial مجله دانشگاه علوم پزشکی رفسنجان دوره هفدهم، فروردین 1398، 2-1             آشنایی با روش گروه صوری Getting to Know the Nominal Group Technique   محسن رضائیان[1]،[2]   M. Rezaeian   در سخن سردبیری بهمن ماه سال گذشته به روش دلفی پرداخته و اشاره کردیم که این روش، یکی از راه‌های دست‌یابی به توافق پیرامون یک موضوع می‌باشد [1]. هدف از نگارش این سخن سردبیری، پرداخت...