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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... hypothesis may be , it can always be overthrown in the future . The possibility of negative evidence is ever looming ... hypotheses . You can always protect a favored belief by invoking a protective supplementary claim : the instruments ...
... hypothesis of balanced superior heterozygote fitness . Where did Dobzhansky get this idea , or , more particularly , where did he get the idea that it might be a significant factor in the real world ? The balance hypothesis itself ...
... hypothesis wins decisively . Yet not so fast ! The balance hypothesis supposes that variation is held in populations by natural selection , because heterozygotes are fitter than either homozygote . This is something that is still to be ...
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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