... traits that are persistent ancestral characters , and not adaptations in the species at hand . " Similar views have ... difference between adaptation- ism and historical ecology is that the latter considers as adaptations only those aspects ...
Evidence and Evolution: The Logic Behind the Science
His book will interest all readers who want to understand philosophical questions about evidence and evolution, as they arise both in Darwin's work and in contemporary biological research.
... physics , the vocabulary of biology and the vocabulary of physics have little overlap . Explana- tions in biology are produced in the distinctive vocabulary of biology ; explanations in physics use the distinctive vocabulary of physics ...
Did Darwin Write the Origin Backwards?: Philosophical Essays on Darwin's Theory
... agnostic . Right after he endorses the first cause argument in the Autobiography , he hedges ; he says that human ... deism . Whether Darwin settled into agnosticism or forever vacillated between deism and agnosticism , two points are ...
Reconstructing the Past: Parsimony, Evolution, and Inference
... synapomorphy ( 110 ) deserves more weight than a symplesiomorphy ( 100 ) precisely when apo- morphies have a lower expected frequency than plesiomorphies . Fine- tuning and technical qualifications I consign to the appendix . In the ...
... and thus polyphyletic groups from their system . But even when purged of ... symplesiomorphy is of no more value in justifying a supposition of closer ... synapomorphy " ) . When such characters have been demonstrated , then the ...
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