A simple principle predicts a tendency, or vector, toward increasing organismal complexity in the history of life: As the parts of an organism accumulate variations in evolution, they should …
The important role that randomness plays in evolutionary change John Tyler Bonner, one of our most distinguished and insightful biologists, here challenges a central tenet of …
F Heylighen - The evolution of complexity, 1999 - cleamc11.vub.ac.be
Although the growth of complexity during evolution seems obvious to most observers, it has recently been questioned whether such increase objectively exists. The present paper tries …
HE third reprinting of the Vanuxem Lectures THE Tfor 1915-16, of for 1915-16, entitled A Critique of the Theory of Evolution, having been exhausted, the publishers have asked for a …
PA Corning, E Szathmáry - Journal of theoretical biology, 2015 - Elsevier
Non-Darwinian theories about the emergence and evolution of complexity date back at least to Lamarck, and include those of Herbert Spencer and the “emergent evolution” theorists of …
The process of organic evolution requires consideration of factors facilitating the transformation of the organisms as well as factors responsible for preserving the …
G De Jong - The Quarterly Review of Biology, 1994 - journals.uchicago.edu
" Fitness" has been used to indicate a measure of general adaptedness, and to indicate a short-term measure of reproductive success. The former concept seems unproductive in …
G Vijver, SN Salthe, M Delpos - 2013 - books.google.com
The three well known revolutions of the past centuries-the Copernican, the Darwinian and the Freudian-each in their own way had a deflating and mechanizing effect on the position of …
Robert Brandon is one of the most important and influential of contemporary philosophers of biology. This collection of his recent essays covers all the traditional topics in the philosophy …