On the logical relationship between natural selection and self‐organization

GA Hoelzer, E Smith, JW Pepper - Journal of Evolutionary …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
… the power of natural selection (NS) in his book On The Origin of Species (Darwin, 1859),
biologists have been quite united in the view that selection is the only natural process capable …

The logical status of the theory of natural selection and other evolutionary controversies

MB Williams - The methodological unity of science, 1973 - Springer
… of natural selection is not tautologous and that the belief that it is stems from formulations of
the theory which attempt to defy logical … and the target of selection. The concatenation of the …

Reconsidering the logical structure of the theory of natural selection

T Hunt - Communicative & integrative biology, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
natural selection from tautology or circularity. This comes at a cost, which is to accept that
natural selection … I also suggest a rough outline of how natural selection theory may become …

The logic of university students' misunderstanding of natural selection

ED Greene Jr - Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1990 - Wiley Online Library
… elementary education majors’ misunderstandings of natural selection. The major idea of the
… of how nature functions. If the idea is valid, there should be logical connections between the …

Natural selection, morphoprocess and a logical field of evolutionary concepts

AI Granovitch - Natural Selection: Revisiting its Explanatory Role in …, 2021 - Springer
… are to happen, may entail the reconstruction of the logic of the entire biological knowledge.
… In the beginning, we will consider the logical structure of the traditional conceptual model of …

Natural language and natural selection

S Pinker, P Bloom - Behavioral and brain sciences, 1990 - cambridge.org
natural selection. Chomsky and Gould have suggested that language may have evolved as
the by-product of selection … trait should be attributed to natural selection: complex design for …

The logical structure of linguistic theory

SR Anderson - Language, 2008 - muse.jhu.edu
… It seems quite implausible to suggest that the basic Darwinian mechanisms of random
genetic variation and natural selection could have resulted by themselves in the very specific …

The logical structure of functional explanations in biology

MB Williams - PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the …, 1976 - cambridge.org
… through a population under the influence of natural selection. … However, I will state the
selection laws and conditions … the most fundamental laws of natural selection; instead I will state a …

The natural selection of bad science

PE Smaldino, R McElreath - Royal Society open science, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… To validate the logic of the natural selection of bad science, we develop and analyse a
dynamical population model. Such a model simultaneously verifies the logic of a hypothesis and …

The logical structure of evolutionary explanation and prediction: Darwinism's fundamental schema

N Tennant - Biology & Philosophy, 2014 - Springer
… The use-occurrence of the phrase ‘natural selection’ in the … the modern debate about whether
natural selection (if there is such … 195, advances an interpretation of natural selection as a (…