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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... organisms are born than can possibly survive and reproduce ; organisms come with heritable differences ; those organisms that succeed in the struggle for existence and reproduction will be different from those that do not , and their ...
... organisms on different islands of a group and those on the nearest major stretch of mainland , and less strong similarities between organisms on two geographically distant island groups , despite their having a similar habitat . Why ...
... organisms , usually in competition with others , to survive and reproduce SUPRAORGANISM : a group of organisms so integrated that selection acts on them as one individual SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST : a term coined by Herbert Spencer and ...
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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