The Claims of Generalized Darwinism

Why we need a generalized Darwinism, and why generalized Darwinism is not enough

Complex evolving systems, consisting of populations of varied and replicating entities are found in both nature and human society. There exists no alternative to the core Darwinian principles of variation, selection and inheritance to explain the evolution of such systems. Neither the actual existence of human intentionality nor the hypothetical possibility of Lamarckian acquired character inhe...

Darwinism and social Darwinism.

The Evolution of Darwinism

W hen biologists refer to the theory of evolution nowa­ days, they are usually think­ ing not of Charles Darwin'S original statement of the theory but of a modi­ fied and expanded version of Darwin­ ism that took shape in the 1930's and 1940's. First known as the Neo-Dar­ winian theory and later as the synthet­ ic theory, it affirmed the fundamental tenets of Darwinism. It held that evo­ lution...

Darwinism

The Challenge of Neural Darwinism