In What Sense Does ‘Nothing Make Sense Except in the Light of Evolution’?
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In what sense does 'nothing make sense except in the light of evolution'?
Dobzhansky argued that biology only makes sense if life on earth has a shared history. But his dictum is often reinterpreted to mean that biology only makes sense in the light of adaptation. Some philosophers of science have argued in this spirit that all work in 'proximal' biosciences such as anatomy, physiology and molecular biology must be framed, at least implicitly, by the selection histor...
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عنوان ژورنال: Acta Biotheoretica
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0001-5342,1572-8358
DOI: 10.1007/s10441-008-9054-9