It is a widely accepted view that Charles Darwin's theory of biological evolution is founded
on the notion of adaptation, a creative evolutionary process driven by natural selection and …

Providing empirical content to Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection (ENS)
amounts to determining what biological entities can be selected and explaining their traits …

The analogy Darwin drew between artificial and natural selection in On the Origin of Species
has a detailed structure that has not been appreciated. In Darwin's analogy, the kind of …

The philosophical or metaphysical architecture of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural
selection is analyzed and diflussed. It is argued that natural selection was for Darwin a …

Darwin's theory is still to be regarded as the best starting point in evolutionary thinking. Its
hard core-and the hard core of any Darwinian tradition-is the theory of natural selection, and …

This book contests the general view that natural selection constitutes the explanatory core of
evolutionary biology. It invites the reader to consider an alternative view which favors a more …

Darwin in his On the Origin of species made it clear that evolutionary change depends on
the combined action of two different causes, the first being the origin of genetically based …

I investigate the role of palaeontology within Darwin's works through an analysis of the two
chapters of The Origin of Species most especially devoted to this science. Palaeontology …

In the 1940s, the 'modern synthesis'(MS) of Darwinism and genetics cast genetic mutation
and recombination as the source of variability from which environmental events naturally …

No other scientific theory has had as tremendous an impact on our understanding of the
world as Darwin's theory as outlined in his Origin of Species, yet from the very beginning the …