This article analyzes the impact of the resurgence of American creationism in the early 1980s on debates within post-synthesis evolutionary biology. During this period, many evolutionists criticized Harvard biologist Stephen Jay Gould for publicizing his revisions to traditional Darwinian theory and opening evolution to criticism by creationists. Gould's theory of punctuated equilibrium was a s...

Several social scientists, including ‘evolutionary economists’, have expressed scepticism of ‘biological analogies’ and rejected the application of ‘Darwinism’ to socio-economic evolution. Among this group, some have argued that self-organisation is an alternative to biological analogies orDarwinism.Others have seen ‘artificial selection’ as an alternative to natural selection in the socio-econ...

Abstract Understanding the emergence of objectivity from quantum realm has been a long standing issue strongly related to classical crossover. Quantum Darwinism provides an answer, interpreting as consensus between independent observers. computers provide interesting platform for such experimental investigation Darwinism, fulfilling their initial intended purpose simulators. Here we assess what...

The problem of objectivity, i.e. how to explain on quantum grounds the objective character macroscopic world, is one aspects celebrated quantum-to-classical transition. Initiated by W. H. Zurek and collaborators, this gained some attention recently with several approaches being developed. aim work compare three them: Darwinism, Spectrum Broadcast Structures, strong Darwinism. paper concentrated...

Most scientific theories, even revolutionary ones, change the practice of a particular science but have few consequences for culture or society at large. But Darwinism, it has often been said, is different in this respect. Since the publication of The Origin of Species, many have claimed that Darwinism has a number of profound social implications. Here, I briefly consider three of these: the ec...