Mystery of Mysteries: Is Evolution a Social Construction?With the recent Sokal hoax--the publication of a prominent physicist's pseudo-article in a leading journal of cultural studies--the status of science moved sharply from debate to dispute. Is science objective, a disinterested reflection of reality, as Karl Popper and his followers believed? Or is it subjective, a social construction, as Thomas Kuhn and his students maintained? Into the fray comes Mystery of Mysteries, an enlightening inquiry into the nature of science, using evolutionary theory as a case study. |
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... effects could be justified . Its success rate was no more than that of a placebo . Mesmer- ism led to no new findings , to no new ideas , to no useful connections with conventional medicine . In fact , it led to nothing at all , save ...
... effects of such causes over time , confident that things will not just follow in a haphazard fashion . The law holds only for large groups . In small groups , chance factors become significant . Even though selection may favor a ...
... effect and not be swamped out by blending of the units of heredity ( or their effects ) ; how mutations — that is , random vari- ations occur regularly but can be sufficiently small as not to upset the effects of selection but ...
Contents
KARL POPPER AND THOMAS KUHN Two Theories of Science | 13 |
ERASMUS DARWIN From Fish to Philosopher | 37 |
CHARLES DARWIN On the Origin of Species | 54 |
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