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What Darwin got wrong
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Title
What Darwin got wrong / Jerry Fodor, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini.
ISBN
9780374288792 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0374288798 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Edition
1st American ed.
Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010.
Physical Description
1 online resource
Summary
This book dares to challenge natural selection--not in the name of religion but in the name of good science. Most scientists are so terrified of religious attacks on the theory of evolution that it is never examined critically. There are significant scientific and philosophical problems with the theory of natural selection. Darwin claimed the factors that determine the course of evolution are very largely environmental. Empirical results in biology are increasingly calling this thesis into question. The authors show that Darwinism is committed to inferring, from the premise that a kind of creature with a certain trait was selected, the conclusion that that kind of creature was selected for having that trait. Though such inferences are fallacious, they are nevertheless unavoidable within the Darwinist framework. Ultimately, Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini level a devastating critique against Darwinist orthodoxy and suggest new ways of thinking about evolution.--From publisher description.
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Internet Archive collection.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 07, 2020
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-248) and index.
Contents
What kind of theory is the theory of natural selection?
Internal constraints : what the new biology tells us
Whole genomes, networks, modules and other complexities
Many constraints, many environments
The return of the laws of form
Many are called but few are chosen : the problem of 'selection-for'
No exit? : some responses to the problem of 'selection-for'
Did the dodo lose its ecological niche? : or was it the other way around?
Summary and postlude.
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